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#156 5D1CECE8584FF507FF5EE44E3F5A5701

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5D1CECE8584FF507FF5EE44E3F5A5701 is being installed as
the default GUID at all locations. This breaks uploads
for all users who are firewalled, and confuses searches.

Aaron Walkhouse
www.technutopia.net

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  • Markus Kern

    Markus Kern - 2005-10-08

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    What GUID are you talking about?

     
  • Aaron_Walkhouse

    Aaron_Walkhouse - 2005-10-08

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    The 32 character unique identifier common to all gnutella
    clients, as it is a vital part of the protocol since day one.
    If you are a gnutella developer, you are very very familiar
    with it.

    If not, install giFT-gnutella 0.0.10.1 and then do a search
    of all files for "5D1CECE8584FF507FF5EE44E3F5A5701" and you
    should be able to figure it out. ;]

     
  • Markus Kern

    Markus Kern - 2005-10-08

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    Take a look at gt_guid.c. The GUID is randomized on first use
    and then saved. Maybe you have been copying config files
    between different installs?

    Or you have been using a giFT-Gnutella package by one of
    those geniuses who simply take their own installation and zip
    it up.

     
  • Aaron_Walkhouse

    Aaron_Walkhouse - 2005-10-08

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    Neither. I'm running multiple copies of BearShare to ferret
    out worms and spammers for the Fullsize Hostiles List and
    this problem with the GUIDs just showed up suddenly today on
    some of the downloads. I was tempted to add the offenders
    to the List but I figured it was probably limited to just
    the latest version and could be corrected more effectively here.

    I have caught this exact same bug bug twice before, with
    Morpheus, so I recognized it right away. If you know who is
    responsible, give them a kick for me willya? Also, train
    this servent to switch it's own GUID on the fly whenever it
    sees a duplicate out there or on each startup and this will
    never happen again. ;]

    Where would I find these aforementioned 'genuises' anyway?
    Do they hang out on a particular forum? I should mosey on
    over there and give them a good public spanking for making
    the same mistake I busted Morpheus for twice already. :D

    By the way, does giFT accept a hefty host filter (Hostiles
    List)? Mine is getting pretty effective lately for
    BearShare users and LimeWire can just barely handle it, but
    Shareaza is totally hopeless on that score. I'd like to see
    what other servents I could cover. B)

     
  • Markus Kern

    Markus Kern - 2005-10-08

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    The giFT-Gnutella code which handles this hasn't been
    changed in well over a year. I am pretty confident that there
    are no bugs.

    The 'geniuses' are various people who mostly take KCeasy
    and add spy/adware to make a quick buck. Naturally they
    know nothing about giFT/Gnutella/anything and usually
    distribute their own config files and even giFT logs to everyone.
    Good luck tracking them down.

    giFT-Gnutella has a file called hostiles.txt which can be used
    to filter bad nodes by IP. I don't know how it performs for large
    lists but my general experience with these blacklists is that
    they are collected by paranoid freaks and contain mostly
    ranges that shouldn't be in there.

    If you have a clean list which only blocks nodes that behave
    badly on file sharing networks I would be very interested in
    where to get it.

     

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