P2P Blog http://p2p.technoburger.net A blog about Legal File Sharing Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:00:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ eMule 0.49b: better Kad handling http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/How-tolog/~3/91GtJKPvc9c/better-kad-with-emule-0-49b http://p2p.technoburger.net/better-kad-with-emule-0-49b#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:25:27 +0000 Andrea Romagnoli http://p2p.technoburger.net/?p=8 Versione italiana: eMule 0.49b: supporto al Kad sempre migliore
I’ve said it before: the future for eMule is serverless. And the new eMule release (0.49b) demonstrates it: a bootstrap nodes.dat, kademlia obfuscation, better NAT handling… and much more! ;)

eMule

Index
  1. Kademlia protocol improvements
  2. Internal chat improvements
  3. GUI improvements
  4. New UPnP implementation
  5. eMule 0.49b official changelog
  6. Considerations

Kademlia protocol improvements

  • Kad obfuscation;
  • better NAT handling;
  • flood protections;
  • protection against routing attacks;
  • bootstrap nodes.dat distributed with the installation package: this helps users to start the Kad network without servers (serverless)

Internal chat improvements

  • CAPTCHA system to help reducing spam inside chat messages;
  • You can stay in contact with friend with dynamic IPS.

GUI improvements

  • new “Automatic search”: eMule automatically chooses between “Kad Search” or “Server Search” if one of the two network is disconnected, or if both networks are connected.
  • search filter for shared files;
  • search log;
  • Improved Windows Vista support.

New UPnP implementation

  • MiniUPnPLib library has been implemented, to improve UPnP with the newest routers (the Windows UPnP is used as a fallback);
  • MiniUPnPLib library can be disabled: you only need to add “DisableMiniUPNPLibImpl=1″ or “DisableWinServImpl=1″ into the “UPnP” section of the preferences.ini.

eMule 0.49b official changelog

You can read the eMule’s complete changelog here: “Emule 0.49b Released - Official eMule-Board”.

Considerations

Developers are betting on a serverless eMule, and that’s the smartest choice, because:

  • kad search works quite well now;
  • kad network is toughest than ed2k network: an eMule server can be easily turned off by Majors, to stop Kad they have to turn off every PC running eMule in the world. ;)

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]]> http://p2p.technoburger.net/better-kad-with-emule-0-49b/feed http://p2p.technoburger.net/better-kad-with-emule-0-49b Kad network (serverless) for eMule / aMule http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/How-tolog/~3/_mwyGm7p8Ow/kad-network http://p2p.technoburger.net/kad-network#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:12:19 +0000 Andrea Romagnoli http://p2p.technoburger.net/?p=7 Versione italiana: Kad su aMule / eMule
Kad emule/amule
The Kad network (kademlia) lets you contact other eMule or aMule clients without servers (so, is more RIAA-proof than ed2k network). But the first connection to Kad network could cause you some trouble… ;)

Note: as always, I’ll talk about aMule, but eMule is very similar! ;)

Index
  1. Activate Kad network (Kademlia) on aMule/eMule
  2. Starting Kad Network (bootstrap)
    1. aMule/eMule serverless: starting kad network with a nodes.dat file
      1. Import nodes.dat into aMule to connect to Kademlia
      2. Import nodes.dat into eMule
    2. Bootstrap: how to start the kad network from ed2k servers

Activate Kad network (Kademlia) on aMule/eMule

First of all, open aMule’s preferences and activate the kad network, by checking Kademlia under Preferences > Connection > Networks. On eMule, kad should be activated by default. If you don’t want to use ed2k servers, uncheck them now! :wink:

Starting Kad Network (bootstrap)

You have two ways to start the kad network, depending on your choice about using ed2k servers.

aMule/eMule serverless: starting kad network with a nodes.dat file

First of all, you have to download the nodes.dat file; to do so, read “nodes.dat for aMule/eMule’s Kad”.

Import nodes.dat into aMule to connect to Kademlia

  1. go to aMule’s Networks Window;
  2. select the “Kad” tab;
  3. paste this nodes.dat url ( http://download.tuxfamily.org/technosalad/utils/nodes.dat ) in the “Nodes” text area.
  4. Press return and answer Yes to the following question:

    “Are you sure you want to download a new nodes.dat file?
    Doing so will remove your current nodes and restart Kademlia connection.”

avviare il kad su aMule tramite nodes.dat
The image shows how to import a nodes.dat file into aMule
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After a little time, the kad network should be connected. Don’t close aMule immediately, wait until you have a lot of kad contacts (you can see it in the graph), otherwise, the next time you start aMule, your local nodes.dat will be empty, and you’ll be unable to connect!

If the Kad is always firewalled, begin to download a very common file (Ubuntu, for example) and press the “Bootstrap from known clients” button, to start the kad.

Import nodes.dat into eMule

Close eMule, download the nodes.dat file, and move it inside C:\Programmi\eMule\config (overwriting the existing nodes.dat). Reopen eMule and connect to Kad network. In case your kad is firewalled, do the bootstrap too (from kad’s window).

This way you should be able to connect to Kad Network (Kademlia), without being connected to any server. ;)

If it works, let me know. )

Bootstrap: how to start the kad network from ed2k servers

If you’re using ed2k network, you don’t have to download a nodes.dat file (you can always do it in case of problems).

Connect to an eMule server, and begin to download a well shared file (like Ubuntu ISO or Debian’s); when you’re in the queue of a lot of contacts, go to Networks Window > Kad and press Bootstrap from known clients. After a while, you should be connected to kad.

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server emule
After last year’s Donkey Server shutdown, people began to worry about eMule’s fate: “Will eMule end?”. The first answer could be: use kad alone (serverless solution). All you need is a working nodes.dat file (just a nodes list) to do the initial bootstrap.

Otherwise, you can connect to safe ed2k servers from a genuine server.met file.

Index
  1. aMule / eMule Preferences
    1. aMule’s preferences > Server
    2. aMule’s preferences > Security
  2. Networks Window (interfaccia principale):

Note: in this how-to I’ll talk about aMule servers, but everything is valid for eMule also, which is very similar!

aMule / eMule Preferences

If you want to use ed2k servers, you may run into fake / spy servers. I recommend you to change aMule’s default servers settings right now!

aMule’s preferences > Server

Deactivate all checkboxes that begin with “update”; deactivate “Remove dead servers after” too.

aMule’s preferences > Security

Enable all checkboxes under “IP Filtering“; put the following address into the “URL” text area:

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz

Networks Window (interfaccia principale):

Remove all ed2k servers in the list (right click over a server, and choose “Remove all servers”); type http://elboiler.p2pforum.it/server.met.gz in the address bar and update the server list, pressing the “play” button at the left.

That’s all, folks! :)

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nodes.datThe nodes.dat file is required to start a Kad (Kademlia) connection under eMule or aMule. It stores the ips of other users (kad nodes) who share their files over the Kad Network. If you want to connect to Kademlia network for the first time (and you don’t want to use servers) you’ll have to download an existing nodes.dat file from the internet.

Index
  1. nodes.dat URL
  2. Load nodes.dat with aMule
  3. Load nodes.dat with eMule

nodes.dat URL

I uploaded my own nodes.dat file to my web space (if you’re using aMule, copy it to clipboard, else download the nodes.dat file - but only if you’re using eMule):
http://download.tuxfamily.org/technosalad/utils/nodes.dat

I’ll do my best to keep this file updated.

Load nodes.dat with aMule

Open aMule, and go to the Network Window. Open the Kad’s tab, and paste, in the textbox, the url of the nodes.dat: http://download.tuxfamily.org/technosalad/utils/nodes.dat

Press OK, and answer “Yes”.

Load nodes.dat with eMule

Close eMule, and move the nodes.dat you’ve downloaded before to C:\Program Files\eMule\config. Reopen aMule and connect to the kad network, to let eMule read your nodes.dat file.

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A week ago I’ve moved techlog to a brand new domain, Technoburger.net. You know, TechLog is a generalist blog about Technology… too generic. So, instead of running a generalist English blog too (How-toLog), I’ve decided to split the TechLog’s translations into more specific blogs.

So, after the creation of the Eee PC blog, I’ve opened this one. I’ll fill it with articles very soon, so stay tuned! ;)

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