Helpful to verify reports of your own downtime, or to double check a downed website you are trying to access.
One of a set of tools we are providing to everyone as a way of saying thank you for being a part of the community.
The clients themselves are c/s which, once a connection is made, make the transfers p2p.
Of course morpheus is a little different now, now being backended by gnutella. The gnutella clients have a slightly more complicated scheme where each node is both client & server. This is somewhat like a circular, doubly linked, list - once you've got a pointer to _any_ list item (node) you can traverse the list untill you hit any other list item (node).
This means though, that there's no "starting point" for the gnutella network, and therefore no easy way to find a node so you can be inserted into the network. This is handled by having a couple of nodes with static ip's connected all the time. So, IMHO, while gnutella is in theory p2p in practice it's a mixture of the same c/s & p2p components, just in a slightly different proportion.
GL
Mike