What do Xolox users think of Bearshare's Vinnie Falcos latest offering to the Gnutella network?

" I am considering blocking Xolox users from downloading off BearShare 2.4.0 users.
I figure, since Xolox is not in active development, we should discourage its use."


Note that Bearshare users will still be able to leech off Xolox users,yet Xolox will not be able to download off Bearshare.


More info @ http://www.bearshare.net/forum/showt...&threadid=8616

CycloCide

I remember you saying on these forums a while ago that if one Gnutella client actively blocks another Gnutella client then Gnutelliums would no longer continue to host or support the blocking client in question.Is this still the case?
I'm sure that Gnutelliums/Gnutella Forums still hold Xolox in high regard because for one thing this (Xolox)forum is still here despite Xolox being officially discontinued a good while ago.


Bullet

Vinnie is opening up this topic for conversation, to solicit user opinions. Xolox repeated queries are bad for the network, which is true.

But that does not mean that he has actually implemented the block... It is still under discussion, so feel free to come over to the bearshare forums and defend your position!

http://www.bearshare.net/forum/showt...?threadid=8616

As I type, Vinnie Falco has decided against blocking,enough said.

I'm not saying that you are wrong,but please back up your statement,bearing in mind that most major Gnutella clients are/will be implementing automated repeat queries.

I wonder why never an other developer posted a topic how "bad" Xolox is! The only source for this is Vinnie - and we all know what Vinnie is thinking about Xolox...

Morgwen

Xolox is a Gnutella client like all the rest. BearShare is being monopolistic by blocking Xolox clients. It's wrong.

Vinnie's argument is that Xolox is flooding the network with search requests. Why not? Xolox works! Other clients should be more aggressive like Xolox is. If they are so concerned, they should simply code their clients to limit the traffic they route.

Personally, I think Vinnie just wants to phase Xolox out. Good luck!

What happens if someone modifies these bytes in the xolox.exe file:
Offset 879096(in my copy):
User-Agent: www.XoloX.nl

That's what xolox sends to other users. I think it isn't that easy to identify gnutella clients.

What you want to do is look for the hex 0D 0A end of line characters and just make them come after the hex 20 (space) so that it's a blank user agent line.
Screw vinnie, he can't control gnutella anymore cause morpheus gnucleus took over.
Now we have a open source major gnutella client, suck eggs vinnie!

Is there anyway we could have some sort of "bot" that could retreive info about who's connecting us.?

This way we could use a firewall to block bearshare users.

Just a thought.