All these years there were no news. The initial developer
(Eric Ries or Malcolm Handley? Well, both of them) has
disappeared somewhere. The domain expired once, and
Zero Social Bookmark seem to be using this domain
( http://www.peeep.us/acaab3ee )
recently, but zerospan.org expired again and occasionally there was
another man looking for DAAP tooneling solutions. This man
wasn't looking for such solution for the first time, but
domain auction catched his eye. This man was aware of
usual auction consequnces. This man lost metrospace.ru once,
and it was full of sedoparking bullshit instead of useful
contents. The man decided to win the auction this time.
Auction finished at $61.
My name is Ivan Levashew (aka OCTAGRAM {8/3}). I have
some developer background,
so I am able to develop this project, but my goals might be
different from the original ones, sorry. The initial developer
insisted on private p2p model where every willing peer must
take care to get connected with each other. One needs to ask
a friend to install a program and add each other into the
address book. Kenosis RPC is used to locate friends.
My vision differs from this model. Instead of manually
creating interconnections, one is entering a hub which
connects you to everybody else. The hub is to be installed
in Russian ISP LAN. You launch the program (autorun probably),
and you are seeing everybody else's iTunes libraries. Mac
users will be able to see each other in iChat and iPhoto.
ZeroSpan Neo will turn Russian ISP LAN into Bonjour-capable LAN.
I am not giving you promise that it will happen. At least
I have restored zerospan.org from web.archive.org. No Windows
version, sorry. Mac OS X version was cached, Windows one
wasn't.
1.33 was dud release. We have fixed some bugs that broke
connecting.
1.33 (2006-03-14)
Added support for users that are not in Address Book and
connecting to Zerospan with a custom username. This is useful
for connecting to servers without creating Address Book entries
for them.
1.32 (2006-02-12)
Fixed bug that caused zerospan to hang at startup if the
kenosis network could not be found.
Added a Rebootstrap command.
Added more information when reporting that another computer
could not be connected to.
Rationalized port usage: now only ports 2000 - 2009 need to
be opened.
Added a command to show the log file.
1.31 (2005-11-12)
Tunelling bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.3 (2005-11-03)
Sharing iTunes over the internet works.
Fixed many exceptions in the tunnel.
Fixed exception when playing and stopping playing a song in itunes.
1.2 (2005-09-25)
Removed polling from tunnel and switched to tcp tunnel
fix bug where we loop printing "returning socket closed"
export all services
progress dialog for connections
error dialog for failures
persist allowed-to-connect
Removed current user from list of people to connect to.
typing name in list box jumps to name
1.1 (2005-07-28)
We now save which users are allowed to connect.
The local user is removed from the list of users.
Typing in the list of users navigates between users.
Clients are notified when new services have been added on
machines that they are connected to.
We use airhook instead of rpc to tunnel data between
machines.