[NTLUG:Discuss] BitTorrent on Libranet

[Robert Citek]

On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 08:14  AM, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> Note that community thing.  If you are talking about ISOs that will 
> not be
> frequently downloaded, BT isn't the way to go.  BT works because 
> there's
> always - 24x7 - a couple dozen or hundred people downloading 
> FedoraCore.  If
> it's just one or two at a time, then the seed server will have to 
> shoulder
> the entire load.

That's what I wast thinking, too.  So, in the worst-case scenario, 
using a BT seed server is no worse than using an ftp/http server, 
right?  Or am I missing something?

> The "File server's guide" from 
> http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/guide.html - although the 
> instructions say
> they're for Windows, it really does cover the concepts pretty 
> clearly...
> Also see http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/#maketorrent

Yup.  And I also subscribed to the Yahoo!Groups lists for BitTorrent:

   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent/
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent_help/

So far, I've gotten a tracker running and a .torrent file made.  I now 
just need to figure out how to modify my apache settings, "join" the 
two together, and modify my NAT/FW to allow connections through.  Where 
I'm stuck is that I'm not clear on how the tracker knows where the ISO 
is.

That'll be tonight's project.

Regards,
- Robert