Posted by anthonyberet on 09/21/05 22:23

John Wells wrote:
> There was some talk in WinMx chatroom earlier that a primary
> connection would still work because that type of connection is
> decentralized. I canot seem to get my settings correct to try it. Can
> anyone confirm or refute this please?

A primary connection still needs to scrape the cache server to find
peers to connect to. If the cache servers stay down, then as each winmx
primary or secondary peer disconnects, it will be unable to reconnect
and the network will die.

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