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Clip2 are closing their doors.
September 5, 2001 11:39 PM   Subscribe

Clip2 are closing their doors. They provided usage statistics for Gnutella, OpenNap, and JXTA, helped firm up the Gnutella protocol, and created the Clip2 Reflector which provides a proxy and index service for the Gnutella network - which doesn't work anymore, as I found out when I tried to use Gnucleus and it didn't find any hosts. Did they just run out of money, or did something more sinister happen? (I'm betting they just ran out of money.) Are any other organizations going to step up and take over the services they provided? Um... and how do I make Gnucleus work again?
posted by RylandDotNet (3 comments total)

Me, I now go to gnufrog.com which has a frequently updated list of servers to connect to- but obviously, once you can connect to one machine, you'll leapfrog from that to the rest of the network and be back up and fully connected. I think gnutellanews.com also keeps a few basic host servers as well.

This is the beauty of Gnutella, that Clip2 going under is only an inconvenience- although it was obviously a valuable resource for clarifying the gnutella protocol and being an indexing service. By the way, wasn't the Reflector idea eventually supposed to become integrated in the Gnutella network as a standard client option- the faster clients automatically taking over a dynamic proxy role so that slower connections aren't overburdened by constant searches, and also allow the effective horizon to be considerably expanded and speed up searches? Or does that happen already- I'm not up on my Gnutella protocol.

You know, I've been using Bearshare but maybe I should use Gnucleus instead- Gnucleus is open source, therefore free of spyware et al. Hm- I suppose this thread will now become the "What gnutella client are you using and why?" thread...
posted by hincandenza at 12:11 AM on September 6, 2001



for the Gnutella network - which doesn't work anymore, as I found out when I tried to use Gnucleus

I use Gnucleus regularly and haven't noticed a decline. I typically connect to 7 servers within a minute or to of launch.

Now, finding what I want *and* on a host that's not busy is another thing. ;-)
posted by Qubit at 6:02 AM on September 6, 2001


Hmm... it seems to be working today.

I've never used Bearshare, and if it installs spyware, I never will. :) I've been happy with Gnucleus, but Qubit hit it - finding things isn't too hard, but it's a bitch to find a non-busy host.
posted by RylandDotNet at 9:41 AM on September 6, 2001


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