Gnutella Protocol Ping and Pong

[Power Penguin]

What is Ping and Pong for?

Surely you only need Query and Query Hit?

[crackerjacker]

ping pong is
probably pinging the hosts that your connected to like time alive
or
something like that.
someone clarify this
i am just guessing

[crackerjacker]

go to this link it explains ping and pong.
it would be to long to post here

http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/pingpong

[Sephiroth]

Alot of the documentation about the gnutella protocol can be found at rfc gnutella (http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/) as well as the gdf..

[crackerjacker]

yeah, seems interesting enuff to, about the gdf,
rtw
he he
behold a star is born *me*
yeah i am a legend in my own mind ha ha

[Power Penguin]

Thanks CrackerJack.

I've checked out the http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/pingpong
page, and even though I have read this before, the meaning has sunk in, this time.

"Gnutella's ping and pong messages serve two functions:

1. Return IP addresses of other servents so you can establish more connections.

2. (See above link)


So more connections means more search results, which means more files to download.

This is ideally of course, but who ever gets any decent search results off Gnutella, anyways?

FastTrack seems to give me a result for just about ANYTHING