can't connect with MUTE any help? :(

[spamhippy]

hiya.....
just downloaded MUTE, don't know much about the thing... but i can't get it to connect. i'm running windows ME, don't have a firewall up. tried a bunch of differnet webhost thingies... no luck. tried changing the 'behind firewall' setting- no luck. an excert from my mutelog looks like this.....

L2 | Mon May 10 15:26:29 2004 (430 ms) | SecureStreamFactory | Failed to receive their public key
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:29 2004 (430 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Adding a connection failed.
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:29 2004 (430 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Trying to add a new connection.
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:29 2004 (430 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Trying to connect to 90.0.0.69:4900
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:34 2004 (980 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Timed out connecting to host.
L2 | Mon May 10 15:26:34 2004 (980 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Connection failed to 90.0.0.69:4900
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:34 2004 (980 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Adding a connection failed.
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:34 2004 (980 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Trying to add a new connection.
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:34 2004 (980 ms) | ConnectionMaintainer | Trying to connect to 80.180.56.148:4900
L4 | Mon May 10 15:26:37 2004 (280 ms) | readStreamUpToTag | Failed to find end tag "EndPublicKey", read 0 characters:

...and that seems to be pretty much the whole deal. anyways- can anyone give me some pointers so i can connect with this thing? -thanks

[zaphodiv]

Read the old threads about mute.
There will be lots of dead addresses in the hosts list from people who have tried it and left.
Let it run for an hour. If you don't get some host in the connections list join the IRC channel, if anyone is still around ask for a boot ip.

[The Hidden]

Did you check out the MUTE Wiki and the board?

http://www.planetpeer.de/wiki/index.php

http://board.planetpeer.de