Talk about thread hijacking
Just kidding! I too have ran into this recently. In fact, my linux box will not find any peers available. I've tried swapping libboost around (1.46/1.48) recompiling the latest...same problem. I found a user who was kind enough to setup 3 boxes to help speed this up. add this to your worldcoin.conf:
addnode=198.58.124.238
addnode=106.186.118.114
addnode=212.71.239.66
Just be kind enought to remove them once your all caught up so other people can benefit the same. The true issue is port forwarding related. Port 11081 needs to be forwarded or the coind needs to be compiled with UPNP support.
Thanks go to NutNut here:
http://worldcoinforum.org/topic/741-wdc-is-a-joke/