To a degree you are correct. AFAIK new downloads could not start if the
tracker crashed. The tracker is the traffic cop that tells peer nodes
about each other. I dont believe the tracker that comes from the main
bit torrent author allows for multiple trackers with a common data
repository, but if we're really interested, maybe we could hack up the
code to talk to a central pgsql database allowing multiple trackers on a
dns rr.
Gavin
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
No you can not, but the tracker isn't very resource intesive from
my past experience. I can host it if needed.
It wasn't that that I was thinking of ... just wondering if there
was some way of having it redundant, instead of centralized ... nice
thing about ftp mirrors, we have about 60 of them, so if one goes
down, it doesn't really affect anything ... from what everyone is
saying, if the tracker goes down, it affects everything ... seems
odd to have "new technology" still having single points of failure :(
O.k. I know nothing of bittorrent but couldn't we just have to
machines that are identically configured that have a round robin DNS
thing going on?
we're not talking load issues this time ... the way I understand it,
bittorrent has a 'tracker' process that only one can be running on the
"BT Distributed Network" at once ... so, if the bt "central server"
goes down, the whole bt network goes down with it ...
At least, this is my understanding, someone please correct me if I'm
wrong ...
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