i am experiencing changes in the ratio of incoming and outgoing connections, i.e.: yesterday, i had no outgoing connections, today, i have no incoming connections.

i have changed nothing in the configuration.

can someone explain the dynamics within the gnutella protocol and why these things happen (in simple words)?

i mean, i always start with a first outgoing connection, then my ip is "discovered", i.e. known to a few hosts in the network and propagated to other clients. theoretically, i could be accepting incoming connections now.