Posted by me on 11/23/05 04:58

anthonyberet wrote:

> Morton Davis wrote:
>
>> <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!
>>
>>
> I am amazed at the number of typos I made in that post.
> Would you believe I don't normally use a spellchecker? - I wonder what
> was wrong with me at the time I posted.
> (And no, I wasn't pissed or anything exciting like that ;)

Just figured you had pulled a George Gobel. He used to say he only
drank to get steady. "Sometimes" he said, "I get so steady I can't
stand up."

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