Hey, 'Plucker', how long has this prob with BS been going on?
Any and all info would be much appreciated.

And, what about the other BS.net addresses?

Ciao big guy and beware the sheilas...

I've been noticing it for about a year now I think...it happens when I haven't used BS in a couple of weeks...sometimes it was definitely because of PG@ blocking the bearshare.net IP addy (which I FINALLY figured out and unblocked that IP for a few minutes) and sometimes its because a new list can't be found..

either way I've gone for forced UP mode and notice that in that setup it eventually gets connected to mostly LW hosts, then as its able to find BS peers via the LW connections and upon next startup (as long as that startup is within a day or so) will usually get connected immediately and to mostly BS peers....I haven't had to change my connect.txt file as of yet, though I did try it out once and it did work....

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I had the same problem and this fixed it for me (from another forum)....

You probably need a fresh host cache. Shut down BearShare and unzip this into C:\Program Files\BearShare\db\

http://www3.telus.net/Aaron_Walkhouse/connect.zip

The exact same link is already posted in several places on this forum. But assistance for other users is always appreciated. Since some do not bother to search for a solution by themselves.

Thank you