I seem to be getting some success (in terms of keeping new blocks coming) by constantly trashing unconnected nodes.

Presumably it shouldn't take much for the software to do the same thing automatically (not sure why it isn't doing that already).

So shouldn't the zombie nodes be able to be weeded out by PoS (i.e. each node you connect to sign something which proves how much NXT they control) or this what the Hallmark feature is going to achieve?

Am playing with this now - btw - are the "scum" nodes okay or zombies (they keep coming back after I trash them)?

I mean temporarily (whilst we are under attack by zombies and the software doesn't help).

Just looking for a solution other than downloading blockchains (which is *wrong* in every way).

So maybe a good idea to actually *remove* nodes that are of the same version as your own manually?

My version reports itself as 0.4.2 and I can see 0.4.0 nodes along with 0.4.1e, 0.4.2 and 0.4.3e nodes.

Yes - similar (and I only had 1 or 2 connections initially) - I think there is something going wrong with the software when "older" blocks are being asked for (perhaps such requests are given lower priority?).

So once you fall behind then (at least as it appears to be having) you cannot catch up (as you end up being effectively ignored by the other clients you are connected to).

The version from the link in the Forum appears to be 0.4.2 (which CfB has told people not to use).

CfB can you please update it (to something that we should be using)?

Still stuck at 22680 (688%) - have restarted a few times - a little frustrating not to see any new blocks for so long.

My client is stuck on 22680 (688%) - now what (I have already restarted it to no avail)?

According to my client the % for the block at height 22537 is 22245% but the NXT blockchain explorer has a different block (showing 8441586.28 %).

Does that mean that the NXT blockchain explorer is on a fork?

Thanks - that matches so I'll just let it slowly crawl forward rather than downloading a blockchain.

I am at 22511 now - what should the % of that block be?

Hmm... my Bitcoin client only ever has 8 nodes which never seem to be too busy to send me blocks so I think something is not working quite right.

I see Active peers [28] - shouldn't that be enough?

Although I am only on block 22506 it does seem to be very slowly chugging along - why is it so terribly slow to catch up?

Now showing 22310 at 3394% - am I on the correct chain?

This looks like "alpha" software to me - my client is still stuck at 22303 and doesn't look like it's going to change.

Will play with it again tomorrow but it's not a good start (compared to Bitcoin).

Restarted again and still stuck at 22303 - any idea what is going on?

Well that doesn't seem right (am still stuck back at 22303) - are we seeing multiple forks then?