Posted by anthonyberet on 11/19/05 00:12

me@privacy.net wrote:
> 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.

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