If you could somehow record the ip and the client used when you do a search, you could get the data about what client people who share files tend to use.


I can do this fairly easily... I'll have this code running within a day or 2. I've been hacking around with the Gnucleus code for the past week or so and I've already added a mySQL database interface to it.

I originally added this interface to store statistics on query packets so I could detect a bot thats been scanning me which has resulted in me and my isp getting threatening letters from DCMA - Mediaforce. I plan on detecting the IP addresses they scan from and making these addresses public information so we can all block connect requests from these pricks... but more on that later.

Anyways, I just stumbled in here and read this thread and thought I could help. If anyone is interested, I can make my new IP/client logger version of Gnucleus available to anyone who wants to run it and feed data into a mySQL database. Then I'll publish the results weekly or whenever.

Let me know if anyone wants this