On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Eberhard Moenkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- >Hi, > >On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, jdd wrote: >> Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
>>> If not, we simply need a better p2p protocol - which does not design a >>> future neglecting the presence. >> >> nobody can do anything on your server (I hope this for you :-) > >Of course you can. Just use port 21, 80 or 873, and I will do what you >are telling me. That might be a problem, although not a huge one. Most (all?) bittorrent clients can use different ports to the default. As these ports are already in use, they couldn't be used, so you would need to open up another port to the outside world, and whichever port you chose would have to be open both for TCP and UDP packets. >> I think the main problem will not to lauch a BT server on >> the ftp server, that's easy, the problem is to convince the >> admin that this will not give him problems, security, >> bandwith... and this I can't say. so I understand well that >> such data must be done on a high level (the info must come >> from a trusted professional source) >> >> but if this can make his life simpler, I could work :-) > >Just sing me the HOWTO, but in my melody please... That would be a big problem for me. I've been banned from singing due to being so badly tone-deaf that my wife thinks that when I try, I'm testing out the latest torture methods :| >What to do to help? >Maybe I will do it if it is no http, php, perl or python schnickschnack. >Offering files through ports. I bet they can't do it this simple. >And I bet even further: if they think they can do it this simple, they >do not realize that they are wasting the server's memory and CPU. On the server you admin, the latest delta ISOs are in /pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta8/delta-iso/ I'm using Azureus to seed them and they're residing in /media/WD_USB_2/downloads/delta-iso As an example, if you did start up a bittorrent client[0] on the FTP server and pointed the "download" directory for the beta8 delta torrent to the same directory that the FTP server knows as /pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1-beta8/ the bittorrent client should pick up that you've already got the files present and seed them. The only problem I could see, if you actually did try this out, would be how to perform testing to ensure it works without having to use the production server. Since opensuse.org has the tracker, your server would appear to be just another seed, except with a rather higher upload rate than most of the other seeds. [0] I've no idea how you'd do it with other command-line clients, nor with Ktorrent, but it's very easily done with Azureus. Of course, the only problem with using Azureus, or Ktorrent, would be the requirement to have a graphical desktop, along with X, to be running on a server where you'd want the all the resources used my the FTP and HTTP servers, not some other applications. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
