router.limewire.com is shut down
 

Limewire's host cache 'router.limewire.com' is permanently shut down, read more.
For alternative host caches see: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=4638

Greetings, Moak

Hmm,

Greg don´t know what he writes:

quote greg bildson:
LimeWire itself has not been using this pong cache for 6 months

Limewire uses still the router.limewire.com pong cache!?!?

but in addition, they use the gnutellahosts...

The good side is they have reduced there costs now, hope they will think about the spyware issue now!

Morgwen

You say Limwire's client does use router.limewire.com?

He also wrote they work on an alternative and less centralized system, which is a very good thing for gnutella's future. Host caches are the only centralized part of Gnutella.

Yes they use router.limewire.com...

and

connect1-4.gnutellanet.com...

in the version 1.9!

Really don´t know what about Greg is talking?

Morgwen

That's indeed strange, propably ask Adam Fisk?

Yes,

I send him a PM... I hope he will reply!

Morgwen

Hey guys, how's it going. Surprising to find you two over here in the farther reaches on the LimeWire forum discussing the mysterious intricacies of how the heck this whole thing works =).

This issue is really a relic from the pre-open source days of LimeWire. Probably about six months ago, LimeWire started up its own secret little host cache -- router4.limewire.com. We did this because router.limewire.com was getting overloaded by all of the traffic from all of the other clients. Seeing as we were doing all of this for free (connecting other clients to the network) we felt fine about creating our own secret little host server that would provide a bit more assurance that limewires would be able to connect through the LimeWire-only router4.limewire.com. In the gui, however, it still said "router.limewire.com" to avoid having everyone start hitting our server and not allowing us to get connected.

We're all trying to move to a more fancy distributed scheme where there's no fully static centralized connection point, but it's not a trivial problem.

Hope you both have a happy holiday -- I'll be going on vacation tomorrow, and I won't be back until January 8th (taking a nice trip down to St. Martin), so I won't be able to participate on the forum for a bit. Take care, guys.

Enyoy your vacations and have a nice trip! :)

Morgwen

where is the list of alternative hosts
 

where is the list?

That was five years ago and the bootstrap technology has completely changed.
There is no list, and you don't need one.