I am working on my own gnutella client. I've found some stange things with Bearshare:

1. If you send a ping to a bearshare client it only responds with addresses that are utilizing port 6346 and 6348.

2. If you look at the x-try of a bearshare client handshake they only ever report addresses that are using port 6346 and 6348.

The end result is that if you start with a bearshare seed, you will never connect to any other clients ever again because your cache will be full of bearshare clients.

Anyone have any insight?

Thanks,

Randy