[Linux-disciples] Gnut searching

[Stephen R Laniel]

Hm. I've had trouble in recent months finding anything using gnut. I type
'search [whatever]' and it says "Searching the gnutella network for:
[whatever]," then "Press any key to continue." I press any key, and I
always get back "0 responses received." Following the gnut-internal help
tool for the 'search' command, I repeat the search every few minutes, and
always come up with nothing.

Not only that, but this behavior is different than I remember. Before,
I'd enter the search string once, then every now and again come back to
monitor outstanding queries. Whatever command that was would spit out a
list of all the sites currently holding files that matched the query. Now
it seems that the 'search' command does all the work that the old command
(whatever it was) did. I have to come back from time to time to repeat
the search.

If I run the gnut 'info' command, I get the output below. It seems to me
that gnutella is connecting just fine to other hosts, so it's not a
firewall issue. But just in case: which ports should I be opening up?

Can anyone think of a good reason why gnut isn't behaving well for me
recently? Could it just be that the RIAA's recent copyright crackdown has
stopped a lot of people from providing files, and that there are in fact
0 copies of everything I'm looking for?

Thanks for any help.

Steve

gnut> info
HOST STATS:  Hosts: 9051   Files: 5.220M  Size: 37.146T
             LRU Cache:    0
NET STATS:   Msg Received: 0        Msg Sent: 0
             Unique GUIDs in memory: 0
             Bytes Rcvd: 0             Bytes Sent: 0
QUERY STATS: Queries: 0        Responses Sent: 0
SHARE STATS: Num Shared: 0     Size Shared: 0
      Meas. Upload Rate: 47 kbps Available: 1 DidUpload: 0 DidReceive: 0
CONNECTION STATS:
-----------------
1)68.17.122.188:6346    Packs:      0:0          0:0    Bytes:       0:0
   TID: 4472835  Type: OUT  State: CONN   Rate:      0:0      /sec
2)24.159.118.211:6346   Packs:      0:0          0:0    Bytes:       0:0
   TID: 4489220  Type: OUT  State: CONN   Rate:      0:0      /sec
3)24.159.118.211:6346   Packs:      0:0          0:0    Bytes:       0:0
   TID: 4505605  Type: OUT  State: CONN   Rate:      0:0      /sec
4)68.49.204.193:6346    Packs:      0:0          0:0    Bytes:       0:0
   TID: 4521990  Type: OUT  State: CONN   Rate:      0:0      /sec
5)207.43.74.138:6346    Packs:      0:0          0:0    Bytes:       0:0
   TID: 4538375  Type: OUT  State: CONN   Rate:      0:0      /sec
TOTALS: Rate:     0:0     /s  Sent: 0

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