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Fixed, but its a strange one. There may be a small incompatibility between the settings of v1.5 and v1.6 as wiping out and recreating the settings file in %appdata% did the trick - either that or the upgrade process corrupts the settings file in some way. DHT picked up 175 nodes in a matter of seconds after this. I suggest that you add this to your list of troubleshooting actions.

Sorry, given that I dont know your credentials (other than prolific forum poster), I can't go on your hunch and I'm not about to remove a piece of software that has worked well for me despite the repeated assertions by a few that its junk/useless/rubbish and that its not doing *something* right etc etc without logical justification. Thanks for your time. If I find an answer, I'll come back and post.

Whats the difference ? If DHT 1.6 doesnt run with it completely disabled why would it run uninstalled ? And why would it run perfectly under 1.5 and not 1.6 ? If the upgrade has caused the issue, then its a utorrent version problem, no ? The version of ZA hasn't changed. I think we are grasping at straws here. In any case, its the free version of ZA and there are no rules and there never have been and its always worked fine. Anything constructive I can go with ?

>I ran utorrent with the firewall completely disabled/unloaded from memory with no problems Ahhh... I see what I wrote incorrectly here. I should never post without my morning cup of coffee. What I MEANT to say was that utorrent ran with the firewall completely disabled/unloaded from memory, but DHT was still not working. Green tick, but no connections as mentioned above. Sorry for the confusion. Any more suggestions ?

I ran utorrent with the firewall completely disabled/unloaded from memory with no problems. When its on, torrents still work, just DHT doesnt. I cant see why something works with v1.5 and then doesnt with v1.6 Since the version of ZA hasn't changed, something in v1.6 has. Anything else I can try ?

Reset the Zone Alarm rule and reset the port forward rule in the router and re-added. No dice. I'm not going to uninstall ZoneAlarm because Firon doesnt like it. Many people use it and its been working perfectly for me until v1.6 broke DHT. In any case, just as an experiment, I tried running a few torrents with Zone Alarm completely unloaded out of memory and DHT still doesnt work, so its got nothing to do with ZA. Any more suggestions ? Thanks

Hi. I've done all of the above as suggested in the previous posts. My client gives the green tick but says DHT: 0 nodes (login) or Waiting to login (I've tried 20 different highly seeded and highly peered torrents and made sure that they had DHT enabled in the properties and all do the same). All was working fine under v1.5 but upgrading to v1.6 build 474 seems to have broken DHT completely. Even going back to the previous version now doesnt work anymore either. Even using the above suggestions with 1.5 doesnt work. I've tried a couple of beta versions in between as suggested above, but no joy. Listening Ports and forwarding on the router and client are all fine. Tried different ones just to be sure with the same results. Firewall is ZoneAlarm v6.1.744.001 (no change - autoupdate is turned off). Repatched the TCPIP.SYS after the last set of updates - no difference. I have none of the apps or hardware listed in the FAQ as potentially problematic. What gives with v1.6 Build 474 ??!?!??!?!?!? Help !!!!! Any suggestions appreciated !