I was putting in host cache's and what is the difference between these two, they both have the same IP address.

gnutella.hostscache.com
gnutella-again.hostscache.com

also do the connect1.gnutellanet.com through connect5...com come from the above?

These are the same.

I am not really sure what you mean by this. If you mean are they the same host then the answer is no.

Actually, they do appear to be the same hosts (connect1..5 @ gnutellanet.com that is). I gather this because of the number of same pongs I receive when connecting to them all within a short timespan. Also appears to be BearShare that's running those host caches.

Sorry about the wording. What I meant was if you connect to gnutella.hostscache.com would you get the same IP's to connect to that you would get if you connected with connect1-5?

I agree that it is bearshare that is running it but when I tested it I did not get many duplicates. In fact only connect1 returned duplicates of itself ( ran two tries on each one ). I have attached the results of my test. This does not mean they are all different but makes me more curious. Also I could not get a connection to connect5 ( which happens to be in a different ip block ).

Attached Files

gnutellanet_test.zip (3.0 KB, 48 views)

I blocked any and all bearshare clients to hell and so those host caches don't work for me anymore.
I won't have anything to do with bearshare, so I use Gnucleus and it uses a new host cache system that makes bearshare look like crap.
only open source clients would try to create a cache system where a central CORPORATION has NO CONTROL over gnutella connections.