Flood of port 6346 stuff
 

Hey all..
I recently installed Limewire 1.4b for Windows and tried it out. After about an hour of fooling around with it I closed the program and went to do somthing else. When i came back I noticed that the little LEDs on my DSL modem were blinking like mad. After checking for any open programs, I rebooted the computer hoping that would reset whatever had gone crazy. But it didnt stop the activity.

Now, its been a good 3+ hours from when I first closed Limewire and according to Zonealarm I'm getting about 200 alerts a minute. They're all from different sources trying to access me through port 6346.

Is this normal? Should I be concerned? It doesnt seem to be affecting my connection (or at least its not noticable) but Zonealarm is freakin out about it.

Thanks

I also have this..
 

I also have this happen to me. I am using ZoneAlarm also, except I am on cable modem. Can anyone explain?

they try to resume??
 

I ve the exact same problem, it are small packets eventhough I noticed that my speed has decreased :(
Can it be the other user trying to resume (it's are often teh same iP's) or does the Gnutella network put ur Ip in a database???
I'd hope sumbody could help us :(
:)

Ok you open LimeWire and connect to the gnutella network. Since your on a dsl/cable connection or higher I'm guessing your horizon is huge (you're connected to a lot of people). After you have a somewhat stable connection to ~4000+ hosts for one minute you logoff and close LimeWire. But within that one minute you got maybe 1000 queries. Say 500 of those were matches (query hits). Now we have people searching through their result list trying to find a host to download from. They come across yours and try to connect (they dont know you've logged off). So since their using the best gnutella client in the world LimeWire will try to connect to a default of 3 I believe. But since your firewall is blocking the connections and you dont have LimeWire operating they cant make a connection, well duh you say. Also when you make network connections your ip address is added to peoples discovered hosts so when they lose a connection they might try connecting to you. I'm pretty sure if you're getting hit by the same IP its just someone who really wants your file and they too stupid to try another host after the first couldnt download message. You shouldnt have anything to worry about since you have a firewall. I can believe its annoying. You shouldnt see any speed decrease. You would have to be hit with a lot of hosts (gnutella packets are small). I mean a lot of hosts. Well I hope that answers your questions.

Damn, I wonder were Adam Fisk has been?

Thanks for the replies ! :)
The connection attempts have died down to one or so every couple minutes since I first posted.

Thanks again!

hrmm
 

Even after not signed on to the Gnutella Net for 1 day I still have like 70 blocks from the 6364 port every minute :\