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Closed Gnutella System to Prevent Bandwidth Hogs

Posted by timothy on from the knock-knock dept.

prostoalex writes: "Salon.com is running a story on Gnutella developers contemplating the creation of a closed or authorization-only system to prevent bandwidth hogging. Turns out, numerous applications, including Xolox and QTraxMax employ quering algorithms that are capable of bringing the network traffic to a halt. While it gets better download speeds for the users of the aforementioned applications, the damage to network traffic as a whole is substantial."

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  1. P2P and DOS Attacks by herwin · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have gotten the impression that these P2P networks are not good netizens. I access the net via a dial-up connection. Within a few minutes of logging on yesterday morning, I found myself dealing with what appeared to be a DOS attack on port 6346 coming from an adsl connection in Lithuania. I have that port blocked, so I was seeing a large queue of security alerts from my firewall. This has not been the first time this has happened with one of the P2P ports. Shto/WTFO?