nbco wrote:
Bittorrent is a type of p2p protocol: http://bittorrent.com/introduction.html Bittorrent would take the pressure off the servers as those who use it would effectively be getting the isos from those that already have them on their own boxes, in short it cuts the servers out of the picture therefore reducing congestion. It's in ports. I use: /usr/ports/net/py-bittornado
home page: http://bittornado.com/
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Once I move to 5.3 I could seed it and we can see whether it is picked up. I don't think there is any real reason to seed 5.2.1.
If it offers the kind of performance edonkey offers, I won't use it.
Unless the server were in real trouble when a new release comes out.
But then again, there are lots of mirrors.
Where I live (Germany), I usually get 180 kb./sec and more from a local mirror.
That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. P2P could be a very powerful tool for
distributing free software, documentation, patches...
On the other hand security comes to mind. But wait, you can still get your
checksums from the server. But for anything you get from a source as trustworthy
as a P2P network, you *want* to use checksums. =)
..nbco
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