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Posted by El Marko on 11/01/05 23:43
WinMX returns: Grazia P2PZone!
WinMX fans awoke Wednesday to disturbing news. However before
realizing this news, the WinMX population was faced with the inability to
connect to this community. Finally news reports began circulating that
individuals were not alone and indeed the entire community had collapsed
including the WinMX.com website.
Although the demise of FrontCode Technologies along with its WinMX.com
homepage would not have been the end of the world, WinMX.com provided the
all-important host cache server. This server provided the IP addresses to
WinMX supernodes, thereby allowing clients entry to the network. With the
WinMX.com domain eliminated, the network collapsed. That is unless of course
someone establishes a new method of connecting to WinMX hosts.
A WinMX group named TheSourceCode has created a hosts file that allows
clients to connect to the WinMX network. The instructions are currently
being distributed through a collaborative effort with P2Pzone.net, a popular
Italian P2P news site. The combined effort to resurrect the WinMX network
also includes individuals named "SABre'911", "Polini" and "Ramna."
The method is quite simple. Those involved in the effort have indexed
over 200 functioning WinMX hosts readily available to incoming WinMX
connections. It requires the user to download a new host list provided from
P2PZone.net, which redirects the WinMX client to the functioning hosts. From
P2Pzone.net:
This is the procedure to configure your pc to connect with WinMx:
1) go to this url : http://205.238.40.1/hosts/hosts
2) after download of "hosts" file ( is a windows file included in the
system ) we can procede
3) now paste the new file "hosts" in the directory of windows which
change like the version of s.o.
For Windows 95/98/Me the directory is c:windowshosts
For Windows NT/2000/XP Pro the directory is
c:winntsystem32driversetchosts
For Windows XP Home the directory is c:windowssystem32driversetchosts
Now we can replace the "hosts" file .
4) for win2k & xp sometimes may be necessary use the command "ipconfig
/flushdns" from the prompt of windows.
5) now, open winmx and try to connect with primary connection !
Really is a temporary solution but i think it work good !
Thank you to Polini, Ranma and Sabre for this solution, others update
will appear in this topic ! bye .
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