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hi guys! how's everyone's doing?

hey, I have some experience with PB and have experimented with the network commands of PB. I want to ask if it's possible to make a chat program in PB but WITHOUT all the people knowing other people's IP addresses, and that runs without any server, sorta like a P2P connection. I'm gonna use it for programming commodities because I have some friends who I can't contact all the time and I wanted a simple & efficient program that lets us share code / media and talk at the same time, sorta like MSN Messenger, but without all that bunch of things, just a simple instant messenger program where we can send and receive beetween us code and media (for team projects, for example)

Is this possible? and if it's possible, there's any example / way to do it using PB?

Thanks in advance, I really need that program .
-DARKGuy

DARKGuy wrote:hi guys! how's everyone's doing?

hey, I have some experience with PB and have experimented with the network commands of PB. I want to ask if it's possible to make a chat program in PB but WITHOUT all the people knowing other people's IP addresses, and that runs without any server,

You have to either have a server or everyone know individual IP addresses. If you didn't you'd have nowhere to send your network data

and then how can you explain how KaZaA works? they don't have any server...

I believe Kazaa uses a central server that connects clients to "Super-Nodes" which is like a sub-server...

Your best bet would be to get a YourName.No-IP.com address (they're free) and host the chat server yourself...
Then all clients can automatically connect to DARKGuy.No-IP.com and communicate thru' there....

Have a look at this one:

http://www.doublea.at/soft-chitchat.html