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What is Gnutella?

Gnutella is a large peer-to-peer network, it was celebrated two decades of existence on 14th March 2020 and it has millions of users for peer-to-peer file sharing. It was the first peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model. However in June 2005, Gnutella's population was 1.81 million computers increasing to over three million nodes by January 2006. In late 2007, it was the most popular file-sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40%.

 

History of Gnutella

In early 2000, the Gnutella is also called a first client from which the network got its name was developed by Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper of Nullsoft, soon after the company’s acquisition by AOL. On March 14 the program was made available for download on Nullsoft’s servers. Therefore the event was prematurely announced on Slashdot, and thousands downloaded the program that day.  The source code was to be released later, under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL). However the developers never got the chance to accomplish this purpose.

The next day the AOL stopped the availability of the program over legal concerns and restrained Nullsoft from doing any further work in the project. However this did not stop Gnutella, after few days, the protocol have been reverse engineered, and compatible free and open source clones began to appear. This parallel development of different clients by different groups remains the modus operandi of Gnutella development today.

Gnutella Search and Retrieval Protocol


Gnutella did once operate on a purely query flooding -based protocol. The outdated Gnutella version 0.4 network protocol employs the following five different packet types, such that

  • ping: discover hosts on network
  • pong: reply to ping
  • query: search for a file
  • query hit: reply to query
  • push: download request for firewalled servants

These are mainly concerned with searching the Gnutella's network and file transfers are handled using HTTP.

Software that Support Gnutella

For macOS

The following software that support by macOS are

  • Acquisition
  • Poisoned

For Windows

The following software that support by Windows are

  • Shareaza
  • Morpheus
  • KCeasy
  • CitrixWire
  • Kiwi Alpha
  • BeerShare
  • BearFlix
  • Gnucleus-GnucDNA
  • Zultrax

For Java

The following software that support by Java are

  • Phex
  • Cabos
  • LimeWire
  • FilesWire (P2P)
  • WireShare (aka LimeWire Pirate Edition)

For Cross Platform

The following software that support by Cross Platform are

  • giFT (Gnutella's Plug-in)
  • gtk-gnutella'

For Other Platforms

The following software that support by other platforms are

  • CocoGnut – RISC OS
  • Symella – Symbian

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