I've been using edonkey for several weeks. Once in a while it will not connect to any servers. I fix this problem by replacing the "server.met" file with a new one, such as this one http://members.home.net/edonkey2000/server.met and this has worked every time. In the Edonkey forums the consensus seems to be that the server.met file gets too big and you end up with too many open internet connections or something. I don't understand it exactly, but it sounds like edonkey opens a connection (or several?) for each server on the list.