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Gnutella: Protocol
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The Gnutella protocol restores the Web's original symmetry, enabling even transient computers to effectively participate as servers. It's far from a complete solution, and alternative systems may eclipse it. Nonetheless, this simple and idiosyncratic protocol is currently in the vanguard of the emergence of the transient Web. The transient Web has the potential to be every bit as disruptive as the conventional "permanent" Web, and possibly more so.
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The current stable version of Gnutella is Gnutella 0.4 Developers are strongly advised to look at the current testing protocol. It will be declared stable by the end of September and offers far greater scalability.
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The first protocol developed of Gnutella was developed by Nullsoft in 1999. Nullsoft was eventually acquired by AOL/Time Warner. It said that the developers of Gnutella ate lots of the Nutella food product while in development—hence its name.
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There are efforts to finalize these protocol extensions in the Gnutella 0.6 specification at the Gnutella protocol development website. The Gnutella 0.4 standard, although being still the latest protocol specification since all extensions only exist as proposals so far, is outdated. In fact, it is hard to impossible to connect today with the 0.4 handshake and according to developers in the GDF, version 0.6 is what new developers should pursue.
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Gnutella 2 est un protocole de partage de fichier peer-to-peer basé sur Gnutella. Il est mis au point par Michael Stokes. Il reprend tous les caractéristiques de Gnutella sauf pour l'algorithme de recherche.
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