Public DC Hublist Help

Use Help As A Map Of The Site

This Help section is the starting point for people looking for a public Direct Connect hub, hub owners maintaining a listing, and signed-in users working with tools assigned to their hubs. It connects each task to a focused article instead of repeating every field and control on one page.

Question-mark controls in card headers open the matching Help article or section in a new tab. They do not submit an open form, change a saved setting, or start or stop a hub client. A chevron in the same header only expands or collapses that card body, so the current page state remains available.

Find And Evaluate A Public Hub

Use Hub Search to search across the public directory. The detailed Hub Search guide explains the available filters, result ordering, status and reliability values, and the address row shown below each hub. Search is the right starting point when you know a name, country, protocol, software package, topic, or part of an address but have not chosen a hub.

A hub profile answers a different question: what is known about one selected hub. The Hub article explains its secure and plain connection addresses, current reported values, stored history, users, reliability, owner actions, and links to diagnostics. A profile is a snapshot and history for one listing; it is not another directory-wide search.

NMDC, NMDCS, ADC, and ADCS addresses are connection links. A compatible Direct Connect client can open the appropriate address, while the lock state distinguishes a TLS address from a plain connection. Read the profile and current status before treating a saved address as reachable.

Add, Edit, And Manage Hub Listings

Add Hub is the submission form for a public hub that should be indexed. The Add Hub guide identifies the address and ownership information the form accepts, explains validation feedback, and distinguishes information entered by an owner from values later reported by the hub.

After signing in, User Panel lists hubs assigned to that account. Use the User Panel article to understand account settings, assigned-hub actions, and the path back to a hub profile. Seeing a public profile does not by itself grant permission to change the listing.

For an assigned hub, the edit action opens the owner-managed fields described in Edit Hub. Use that workflow to correct stored listing information. Values supplied by the pinger, such as current availability, users, share, or software, should be interpreted as observed hub data rather than manually maintained profile text.

Choose A Diagnostic That Matches The Failure

The Hub tools test different network layers, so one successful result does not prove that every other layer works. Start with the narrowest question you need to answer and use the tool's Help article to interpret its inputs, limits, and output. These public diagnostics do not require a hub password.

Reachability And Routing

Ping Tool explains the host reachability check. A missing ping reply may mean that ICMP is filtered, so it does not by itself prove that the hub's TCP port is closed. Traceroute follows the route toward the public host and is useful when the path stops, changes unexpectedly, or shows where latency begins.

DNS And Public Registration

WHOIS Tool examines public domain or address registration data. DNS Dig queries specific DNS records, DNS Overview combines the main forward-DNS results into an overview, and Reverse DNS checks PTR names for an IP address. These tools explain naming and delegation; they do not establish that a Direct Connect service is listening.

TCP Ports And The Direct Connect Protocol

TCP Connect tests one public TCP host and port, while Port Scan Tool checks the application's bounded public port set when the expected service port is uncertain. A successful TCP connection only shows that something accepted the socket. Use Protocol Test when you need the bounded NMDC, NMDCS, ADC, or ADCS protocol test to determine whether the endpoint behaves like a Direct Connect hub.

TLS Certificates And Client Active Mode

TLS Certificate checks the TLS endpoint and certificate presented by a secure hub address. It is the relevant check for certificate names, validity, and secure negotiation, not for a plain NMDC or ADC address. Active Mode addresses the client side of connectivity: listening ports, address selection, firewall rules, and port forwarding needed for inbound Direct Connect transfers.

Use Live Features For An Assigned Hub

Hub Chat, Hub GPT, and Hub Mod are not anonymous public tools. They are available only for a hub assigned to the signed-in owner and only when the applicable global and per-hub access settings permit the product. Each page keeps its own client identity, credentials, connection state, and hub-specific activity.

• Hub Chat documents the live DC chat client, including Hub Connection, embedded Connection Status, public chat, private conversations, guest presence, notifications, and session controls.
• Hub GPT documents the assigned GPT client, provider credentials, generation settings, commands, usage records, private-conversation handling, and the difference between global defaults and per-hub values.
• Hub Mod documents command discovery and reviewed execution for supported Verlihub, Ledokol, Lua, and plugin commands, including parameter forms, availability reasons, risk confirmation, and rediscovery.

All three pages place the detailed Connection Status inside Hub Connection. When a client is starting, connecting, connected, or reconnecting as the page loads, that shared card starts collapsed; expanding it reveals both the current runtime state and the saved connection settings without changing the connection.

Understand The Homepage Resources

Home combines several practical resources. The two highlighted hub panels provide direct profile and connection links for PWiAM_HUB and DC_Admin_Arena; they are fixed site recommendations, not a live ranking calculated from the largest user count or newest uptime record.

The Hublist RegServer card publishes the host, port, and Verlihub command used to configure hublist registration. Each value has the standard copy control, which copies the exact code or address without changing it.

The generated-file table lists the global hublist together with available protocol-specific and country-specific lists. Its type selector changes among the published config, JSON, XML, and compressed BZ2 variants, and the adjacent URL can be copied into a compatible client or service. Hublist Downloads provides the dedicated download view when the file list is the main task.

The Hublist Downloads graph reports access and download history for the generated files. The range selector moves between short and long periods, the chart controls select the displayed series, and the card chevron collapses the graph without changing the chosen range. The graph describes download activity; it does not change which hubs are included in a generated file.

Choose The Correct Detailed Article

Use the symptom or goal, not the name of the menu that happened to lead here:

• To find a community, read Hub Search and then open Hub Search with the filters that matter to you.
• To understand one listing, its addresses, history, users, or reliability, use Hub.
• To publish or correct a listing, use Add Hub, Edit Hub, and User Panel for the part of the ownership workflow you are performing.
• To investigate naming or ownership, choose WHOIS Tool, DNS Dig, DNS Overview, or Reverse DNS according to the record you need.
• To investigate reachability, choose Ping Tool or Traceroute; for a listening service or protocol failure, continue with TCP Connect, Port Scan Tool, or Protocol Test.
• To investigate a secure endpoint or an inbound client configuration, use TLS Certificate or Active Mode respectively.
• To operate an assigned live product, use Hub Chat, Hub GPT, or Hub Mod.
• To obtain generated hublist data, open Hublist Downloads and select the format and scope required by the client or service.
• To understand the highlighted hubs, RegServer values, generated-file selector, copy controls, or download graph on the homepage, open Home and use the Homepage Resources section above as the control guide.

The Related Pages panel below this article uses the site's shared page navigation and lists the detailed Help articles available to the current account. Open the closest child article for field-by-field instructions, examples, status meanings, and troubleshooting.

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