Morpheus NeoNet: any good?
p2pnet.net News:- LimeWire’s Greg Bildson took a look at the new and vaunted Morpheus 4.5 with NeoNet.
Does he like it?
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Peer-to-peer revolution? We’ll see
By Greg Bildson
Yup. Revolutionary.
We tried a NeoNet link, and its downloads didn’t work.
We tried an obscure search, and the only results that came back were from the Gnutella network and, specifically, from LimeWire clients.
State-of-the-art Gnutella technology (as embodied in LimeWire and partially in BearShare) has solved the searching problem in reasonably large networks (650K+ and growing).
We’ve also solved a lot of the problems that they haven’t addressed, such as sources that don’t work and improved download reliability. LimeWire has encouraged Morpheus all year to improve the out-of-date implementation of Gnutella that it’s been using.
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have a bad habit of holding stale data and blowing up when the network gets too large, or the transients get too high. These are both issues that peer to peer is supposed to be able to handle. It’s highly unlikely that a DHT will scale. The researchers from Stanford University who study P2P hate DHTs.
Petar Maymounkov, the inventor of Kademlia (a DHT that eDonkey/eMule try to use), now says DHTs aren’t only the wrong technology, but also the wrong metaphor. He’s now looking at routing based on trust – which is more where Gnutella is headed, in my eyes.
The intelligent routing that LimeWire invented minimizes the bandwidth used in searching while returning fresh and responsive results to the user.
Our new firewall-to-firewall transfer capability, which we have in beta, will revolutionize the way peer-to-peer clients deal with the growing problem of firewalled hosts.
DHTs are the wrong way to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. Meanwhile, solutions that do work aren’t being given the attention they deserve.
Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Greg Bildson
cto, LimeWire
New York
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See:-
NeoNet – Meet Morpheus 4.5 with NeoNet, p2pnet, October 6, 2004
