neonet DescriptionNEOnet is a distributed hash table peer-to-peer network created by the makers of Morpheus, StreamCast Networks. Morpheus is the primary client used on the NEOnet network.
Characteristics Category : general-internet | Evasive : yes | Risk :  | Widely Used : yes | Standard Port : tcp/6346-6351,6881-6999,4661,4662,4671 udp/6346-6351,4665,4672 | Has Known Vulnerabilities : yes | Capable of File Transfer : yes | Prone to Misuse : yes | Used by Malware : yes | Tunnels Other Application : no | Excessive Bandwidth : yes | |
AnalysisNEOnet (also known as NEO Networks) is a decentralized peer-to-peer network formed by Morpheus users. Morpheus is a peer-to-peer client software that implements NEOnets technology for distributed file sharing. NEOnet was the first peer-to-peer technology to introduce DHT (distributed hash table), which allows efficient file distribution and sharing among a large number of peers. Today, NEOnet networks claims to have a simultaneous user population of 7 million and growing.
In contrast to peer-to-peer technologies like Gnutella and FastTrack, NEOnet does not have servers or superpeers which can quickly become performance bottlenecks with large networks. NEOnet uses the DHT technology to dynamically distribute and search files among all the peers in the network, allowing completely decentralized and server-less operation. The development of the core DHT technology began in 2001 with a group of computer science alumni from Harvard University that eventually evolved into the NEOnet technology, which can be used to build efficient content distribution networks for use in other areas beside peer-to-peer networks. |