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To overcome this problem MetaMachine, the company developing the original eDonkey client, developed a "successor" of the eDonkey protocol called [[Overnet]], [http://www.overnet.com/ www.overnet.com]. eMule has developed a [[Kademlia]] network of their own, generally called [[Kad Network|Kad]], to overcome this reliance on central servers. [[Emule]] also has a pure P2P client source exchange capability, allowing a client with a 'High ID', i.e. no firewall preventing incoming connections, and a few files well flushed with sources initally acquired from KAD or an ED2K server to keep uploading and downloading for a day or longer after complete disconnection from KAD and ED2K server (Emule won't UDP-query secondary servers when told to disconnect from the server). The source-exchange capability was designed to reduce the load on the servers and KAD by two-thirds or more for files that have a significant quantity of 'seeds', or clients providing sources for the files. MetaMachine Edonkey (eD Hybrid), the 4th or 5th place client for user count on the ED2K network that recently shut down in fear of the RIAA, can not do source exchanges.
== History ==
In [[2004]], the eDonkey network overtook [[FastTrack]] to become the most widely used file sharing network on the Internet. While figures vary from hour to hour and day to day, it is thought, in mid-2005, to host on average approximately two to three million users sharing 500 million to two billion files via 100 to 200 servers. The network's most popular server was, at one time, [[Razorback2]], which usually hosted about 1 million users. Sometime around [[February 21]] [[2006]] the Razorback2 servers were raided and seized by the Federal Belgian Police.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4743052.stm News story about raid on large eDonkey server in EU] </ref> The Razorback2 server is no longer online. 'Donkey Server No. 2' and 'Donkey Server No. 1' currently combine for over a million users.
== Clients ==
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