Posted by Morton Davis on 01/20/36 11:32

<me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:3u7rm3FvuubeU1@individual.net...
> anthonyberet wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That may explain why the DLL patch didn't work as well as the PIE patch.
>
> Thanks, Anthony, and all!
>
>
The 1.6 works great!

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