On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Peter Wemm <pe...@wemm.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, pete wright <nomadlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> A hybrid of bnbt, xbnbt, xbtt, and something else that I don't recall >>> the name of. We ran the seeders from py-bittornado in curses mode in >>> about 15 screen sessions.. by hand. >>> >>> The tracker/indexer code had an open http connect proxy in it (!). >>> The code was particularly difficult to work with and looked extremely >>> light for defensive programming. (string buffer overflows, the >>> works). >>> >>> The bottom line is the nice indexer / tracker / stats thing we had >>> isn't something I feel we can trust. >>> >>> I do believe we can/should publish trackerless/dht torrent files to go >>> with the release binaries. >>> >>> Perhaps an initial web-seed might work, otherwise we could have a few >>> folks with good ftp connectivity do an initial seed from the ftp >>> files. >> >> >> I would be very much be willing to assist with seeding if we make dht >> torrent files available from my nodes located in downtown Los Angeles >> for west-coast and APAC network presence. >> >> as an aside: >> I have been running libtorrent/rtorrent for a bit and it seems like a >> pretty decent platform for building on. having said that - I am not a >> security researcher and would be keen to hear if libtorrent/rotrrent >> suffers from these similar issues? > > Oh wait, I told a lie. It wasn't py-bittornado we used.. it was > rtorrent. Thanks for prompting that. > > I have no concerns with rtorrent except that it was a curses beastie. > It was something we had to manually start up after a machine reboot > until we did some evil scripts with screen. >
ah ok - understood. well i'll keep an eye on the lists, and if some trackerless torrents become available i'll be sure to contribute my resources to this :) I'd volunteer to help build them but unfortunately my human bandwidth is limited atm. cheers, -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"