MLdonkey

MLdonkey is an open source multi-network peer-to-peer application. It is also the name of the peer-to-peer overlay network that the MLdonkey uses. Originally a Linux client for the EDonkey network protocol, it now runs on many flavors of Unix-like, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and MorphOS and supports numerous peer-to-peer protocols. Development proceeds at a rapid rate, and the MLdonkey team was the second to crack the encrypted FastTrack network protocol.

The original developer of MLdonkey is Fabrice Le Fessant from INRIA.

MLdonkey supports the following protocols, either partially or completely:

BitTorrent

Direct connect file-sharing application - As many users of the MLdonkey client (mldc) choose to report inflated share sizes, mldc is not welcome to many DC hubs, and violates the common no fake shares rule

EDonkey network

FastTrack

Gnutella

Gnutella2

http/ftp

Kad Network

Overnet

OpenNAP

SoulSeek

Written in the Ocaml programming language and licensed under the GPL, the application strictly 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.

Development of the software began in late 2001.

= External links =

*[http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/ MLdonkey project page] *[http://mldonkey.berlios.de/ Major MLdonkey support page] *[http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Mldonkey Infoanarchy article]