Keep a safe list of servers-es
Descripción
Muchos usuarios de la red ed2k saben que está llena de servidores falsos que arrojan datos inútiles (pero perjudiciales) a los clientes para estropear sus descargas.
Además, muchos usuarios configuran aMule para que, bajo algunas circunstancias, añada automáticamente servidores a su lista, debido a que la creencia errónea de que "cuantos más servidores haya en la lista mejor" está muy extendida.
Lamentablemente, los servidores falsos son muy populares, lo que les da la gran oportunidad de que te conectes a uno de ellos involuntariamente si, por alguna razón, se cuelan en tu lista de servidores.
Este artículo pretende indicar como evitarlo.
Procedimiento
Follow this steps in this exact order:
Go to Preferences -> Servers and disable the "Update serverlist when connecting to a server" and "Update server list when a client connect" options.
Make sure you have a good list of servers: Start by removing all the servers in your server list. If you are absolutely sure that none of the servers you have in your server list is a fake server, you may keep that list.
Then download a valid server.met file. aMule's default configuration proposes http://www.gruk.org/server.met.gz as it is a very well known and verified list of valid servers. That should be fine. To add that list to your aMule, just put it on the Networks -> eD2k top text bar and click the "blue play button" http://forum.amule.org/images/bunfirlite/lastpost.gif by that bar (see this article for more details).
Note: The above step will not remove the servers you already had in your server list, but simply add the servers in the downloaded list.
Now you will have a list of valid non-fake servers.
Opcional
If you want to be up to date with the servers, in Preferences -> Servers, enable the option "Autoupdate serverlist at startup", then click the "list" button and add the url you used above.
Notas adicionales
If for some reason you someday find out you have no servers in the server list, just click the "blue play button" http://forum.amule.org/images/bunfirlite/lastpost.gif again to get the latest list of known good servers.
You may want to take a look at this article to discover other tricks about maintaining safe server lists.
Aviso
Since the Razorback servers (the real ones, meaning Razorback 2 on IP 195.245.244.243 and port 4661, and Razorback 2.1 on IP 195.245.244.244 and port 3000) are down since february, 21st 2006, also its services are not longer available atm. This also means the serverlist on gruk.org. You can get a serverlist from gruk.org as well, following the link on the bottom of the site, but it is possible, that you receive an empty list atm. So it is recommended not to use it for automatically updating it on startup.
You can get a serverlist there: http://corpo.free.fr/server.met.
Some additional articles:
