MLDonkey
| Initial release | late 2001 |
|---|---|
| Written in | Objective Caml, with some C and assembly |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | ? |
| Type | P2P File sharing |
| License | GPL |
| Website | mldonkey.sourceforge.net |
MLDonkey is an open source, multi-protocol, peer-to-peer file sharing application that runs as back-end server application on many platforms. It can be controlled through a user interface provided by one of many separate front-ends, including a Web interface, telnet interface and over a dozen native client programs.
Originally a Linux client for the eDonkey protocol, it now runs on many flavors of Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows and MorphOS and supports numerous peer-to-peer protocols.
It is written in Objective Caml, with some C and even some assembly.
History
Development of the software began in late 2001. The original developer of MLDonkey is Fabrice Le Fessant from INRIA. It was originally conceived as an effort to spread the use of Objective Caml in the open source community.[1]
In January 2003, Slyck.com reported brief friction beween MLDonkey developers and the offical Overnet MetaMachine developers, which denounced MLDonkey as a "rougue client", allegedly for incorrect behavior on the network.[2]
Versions before 3.0 have known security vulnerability that allows an attacker to read any file on the file system.[3]
Features
Features of MLdonkey core:
- Peer to peer (p2p) program that supports the following network protocols, either partially or completely:
- Multiple control interfaces: telnet, web interface, third party GUIs.
Written in the Ocaml programming language and licensed under the GPL, the application separates the user interface (which can be a web browser, telnet, or a third-party GUI application) and the code that interacts with the peer-to-peer networks.
MLDonkey is able to connect simultaneously to different peers using different network protocols. In addition it can download and merge parts of one file from different network protocols[4] although this feature is currently documented as experimental. MLDonkey runs in a terminal session and does not require a GUI environment, saving memory and processing resources. Behavior is controlled by editable configuration files, or—in a more user friendly fashion—from a separate user interface.
See also
References
- ↑ Fabrice Le Fessant; MLdonkey, a Multi-Network Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Program
- ↑ Thomas Mennecke, Rogue Clients and Overnet, January 17, 2003
- ↑ DJ Walker-Morgan, MLDonkey 3.0 closes security hole, H-online, 16 March 2009
- ↑ Latest cores (above 2.5.28) contain an experimental feature: swarming between networks
General references
- Template:Pl icon Andrzej Kwaśniewski (November 18, 2005) P2P pod Linuksem (P2P in Linux), PC World Poland
Related software
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