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After last year’s Donkey Server shutdown, people began to worry about eMule’s fate: “Will eMule end?”. The first answer could be: use kad alone (serverless solution). All you need is a working nodes.dat file (just a nodes list) to do the initial bootstrap.

Otherwise, you can connect to safe ed2k servers from a genuine server.met file.

Index
  1. aMule / eMule Preferences
    1. aMule’s preferences > Server
    2. aMule’s preferences > Security
  2. Networks Window (interfaccia principale):

Note: in this how-to I’ll talk about aMule servers, but everything is valid for eMule also, which is very similar!

aMule / eMule Preferences

If you want to use ed2k servers, you may run into fake / spy servers. I recommend you to change aMule’s default servers settings right now!

aMule’s preferences > Server

Deactivate all checkboxes that begin with “update”; deactivate “Remove dead servers after” too.

aMule’s preferences > Security

Enable all checkboxes under “IP Filtering“; put the following address into the “URL” text area:

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz

Networks Window (interfaccia principale):

Remove all ed2k servers in the list (right click over a server, and choose “Remove all servers”); type http://elboiler.p2pforum.it/server.met.gz in the address bar and update the server list, pressing the “play” button at the left.

That’s all, folks! :)

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