Hello!

I was one of the many folks who got taken by surprise when I saw the "expired" dialog box and read the "we have decided to discontinue XoloX" message. It hit me especially hard since I am a relative newcomer to p2p and the search for a good client was a long and painful one. In XoloX, I found a wonderful client with the features I needed that worked great. I did a 'net search, and fortunately stumbled across this message board which had the "block www.xolox.nl" advice. (THANKS!!!)

I notice there is a patched version available for download, but many folks are wary of downloading executables, and there has been some discussion about it being hard to download it (probably a lot of folks trying to do that) :-) There's no need to download anything though; your current client will work if you block www.xolox.nl.

As far as blocking www.xolox.nl goes, many people may be thinking you need a firewall (or access to your firewall) to do this, but that isn't the case. Here's what I did to get my copy working again...

From the command line, type:

route add 194.109.6.83 192.168.0.123

Basically that tells your system to redirect all traffic bound for 194.109.6.83 (www.xolox.com) to 192.168.0.123 instead. It doesn't really matter what you use for the second IP address, I just used 192.168.0.123 because it is an unused IP address on my local network. (Using an IP address in the 192.168.*.* range will ensure you don't hit an Internet host. It doesn't matter if you do, as long as that Internet host is not www.xolox.nl, but using the local address range may speed up your startup time and its also a little less traffic that has to travel over your 'net connection.) This route will be lost when you reboot your machine, so if you don't want to keep typing it, put it in your autoexec.bat file.

If you want to allow access from your machine to www.xolox.nl again, type:

route delete 194.109.6.83


Note that if their IP address ever changes, you will need to use that instead of 194.109.6.83. If you notice that this hack doesn't work anymore, check to see what their IP address is by typing:

ping www.xolox.nl

That'll try to ping the IP address, but will also show you what IP address the name resolved to.

Note: I am using Win2K Pro. This should work in Win9X and XP too, though there is a chance the syntax is different. If it is, just run the "route" command without any arguments and it should print some help for you, and you should be able to figure it out. Just remember that what you want to do is to add a route for 194.109.6.83 to a bogus destination.


Sorry for the length of this message; many of you probably already know this info, but I wanted to be explicit so that those folks who aren't familiar with TCP/IP routing tables could benefit.

Enjoy!

This is the page where I found the “xolox113.zip” link (alt.gnutella).


http://usenet.freenet.de/article.php...ella&catid=480


Thank you, kane2931!

Attached is a crack for Xolox 1.12 that disables the "Expired Version" check. It's quite small (12.8KB) and so should be an easy download. Enjoy.

Attached Files

xoloxcrk.zip (12.9 KB, 5187 views)

easier than a crack, just start xolox before you access the net, logon the net and it works fine. I am using it now...

http://www.geocities.com/bigdanburton/xolox113.zip

May be easier, but not pratical for those of us with "always-on" internet access.

then just unplug the connection for a second, if your on ethenet like me just unplug it really quick, if cable unscrew..etc. or just download the new file. i have it, you can email me at iamnacho@hotmail.com, it is in zip form

before access the net, run xolox and
turn off autoupdate feature,

at the tools-preferences-downloads-
deselect
"Automatically downloads and install newer XoloX versions"

then you don't need to block any port
or use any commands


just that's it.

however, you should do this with un-updated xolox
if already 'contaminated' get a xolox.exe file and just
overwrite it. and do the above.

i am currently downloading 3 files
at 47k , 40k, and at 19k

and one uploading at 20k

wow~~~ great!!!

that's why decentralized gnutella is good!

i just did autoupdate-off.

Thanx Guys:

C:\>ping www.xolox.nl

Ping www.xolox.nl [127.0.0.1] mit 32 Bytes Daten:

Antwort von 127.0.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128
Antwort von 127.0.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128
Antwort von 127.0.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128
Antwort von 127.0.0.1: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128

Ping-Statistik für 127.0.0.1:
Pakete: Gesendet = 4, Empfangen = 4, Verloren = 0 (0% Verlust),
Ca. Zeitangaben in Millisek.:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Mittelwert = 0ms


Works fine *G*