Basic technical question

**vidocq** · October 3rd, 2003, 07:16 AM

Hello

Could someone explain me how DIrect Connect works?
I mean is it a client from a proprietary network? centralised like nNapster? or more like Gnutella ?

thanks a lot for your help :tilted

V

**g-smooth2k** · October 3rd, 2003, 07:24 AM

DirectConnect is like Gnutella
It is not centralized

**cpugeniusmv** · October 3rd, 2003, 07:27 AM

check this out:

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=10437

it is similar to napster, but the servers (hubs) are run by regular users...not by a single company.

**vidocq** · October 4th, 2003, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by cpugeniusmv

check this out:

http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=10437

it is similar to napster, but the servers (hubs) are run by regular users...not by a single company.

Hmm I am confused
Do they use Gnutella network? or a proprietary network?

ANd by the way, the page given by your link says something wroong:. It is not open source. Jon Hess refused it (he is the guy who wrote the "hub" software)

**g-smooth2k** · October 4th, 2003, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by vidocq

Hmm I am confused
Do they use Gnutella network? or a proprietary network?

ANd by the way, the page given by your link says something wroong:. It is not open source. Jon Hess refused it (he is the guy who wrote the "hub" software)

They do not use the Gnutella Network
Although they are Open Source
They have their own Network

http://www.neo-modus.com

DC++
Runs on that same network
Has no adware/spyware
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net

BCDC++
Black Claw DC++
Runs on that same network
Has no adware/spyware
http://utrum.dyndns.org:8000/

**hawkburn** · October 4th, 2003, 01:05 AM

Direct Connect has Nothing to do with Gnutella, but its kind of similar, though not really.

Direct Connect is run by dedicated users to file sharing. There are many "hubs" run by one computer who controls all the traffic in that hub. Its a chat room between the users in the hub, and you may search within the hubs, or get a list of a specific user's files. Multi-source downloading is not implemented, as Gnutella is. Some hubs are password protected, public hubs could easily be shut down, such as the college one a while ago.

Hope this helps :)

**jonnymnemonic** · October 4th, 2003, 02:00 AM

Isn't DC basically a layer on top of IRC or an IRC-like server? That's what it seems like to me, just a graphical interface to a variety of IRC servers. Better though, in that you don't need to learn piles of arcane textual commandlines to do anything.

**cpugeniusmv** · October 4th, 2003, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by jonnymnemonic

Isn't DC basically a layer on top of IRC or an IRC-like server? That's what it seems like to me, just a graphical interface to a variety of IRC servers. Better though, in that you don't need to learn piles of arcane textual commandlines to do anything.

mmmm, you might liken it to that....

it's very different under the hood of course.