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Posted by me on 10/18/68 11:32
anthonyberet wrote:
> me@privacy.net wrote:
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>> I've tried both the fixes to WinMX: the version 1.9 from WinMX
>> Central, and Vladd's PIEPatch2.6. The Vladd patch seems to work better.
>>
>> However, I'm curious as to what each one does. What is the difference
>> between them?
>>
> As weel as the other answer people have given, there is are differences
> in the chace servers.
> The DLL has just one server, and if that is down you wont be able to
> connect (with one version, winmx would crash).
> However, the DLL cache server is slao connected to the network and it
> collects the IP addresses of primaries by sniffing the search traffic.
> The PIE patch is simply, but possible more robust, as it just redirects
> winmx to connect at a number of cache servers, which draw their lists of
> primaries from those attempting to connect.
> - I believe the scaped info is tha last few primaries to connect - this
> can lead to a long wait to connect if a bunch try to connect at the same
> time but faile - they then all spend time retrying each-other for ages.
That may explain why the DLL patch didn't work as well as the PIE patch.
Thanks, Anthony, and all!
Stranger
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