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Old August 23rd, 2004
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Originally posted by jum
Well, what is that supposed to hide? Anybody who is able to open a command line can get similar infos from the OS without LimeWire being able to hide it. Just type netstat -a on OS X or netstat /a on Windows and you see any IP number that is connected to your computer.
Make it impossible to be sure, that the host which serves the file really shares it. If that host could also be a proxy, which doesn't even know what it souted through it, youl can't be ure, if the browsed IP really is the source.
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