> Regarding Bittorrent:
> Bitorrent requires a separate instance and a separate port for every
> file that you are sharing. When some people will be sharing
> hundreds of files this is simply not a workable approach.
Yes, this is a big drawback in bittorrent's current implementation.
It could
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:43, Fred Van Andel wrote:
> P2P in general:
> The content of the network needs to be tightly controlled. We are
> dealing with source code here and the consequences of someone being
> able to inject malicious code or malicious files into the network
> would be unthinkab
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On September 22, 2003 03:40 pm, Pupeno wrote:
> I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate
> bittorrent into ebuild so people could use it to download the
> sources from diferent mirrors and even people could share a bit
> aliviatin
On 29 Sep 2003, at 5:44 am, Stephen Boulet wrote:
On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:38 am, Stroller wrote:
You only have to open specific ports on firewalls if you are serving
a
torrent. Others jumping on it have no problem, and are encouraged to
do so,
since they make everyone's download rate go
On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:38 am, Stroller wrote:
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> > You only have to open specific ports on firewalls if you are serving a
> > torrent. Others jumping on it have no problem, and are encouraged to
> > do so,
> > since they make everyone's download rate go up.
>
> I think you're mistaken
On 25 Sep 2003, at 7:08 am, Stephen Boulet wrote:
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:01 am, Terry Churchill wrote:
Absoloutely, but I don't agree that bittorrent is the way to go.
But - it should be an option for those who do want to use it, and are
willing to open the required ports on firewalls, e
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:01 am, Terry Churchill wrote:
> Absoloutely, but I don't agree that bittorrent is the way to go.
>
> But - it should be an option for those who do want to use it, and are
> willing to open the required ports on firewalls, etc.
[snip]
You only have to open specific
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 22:14, Terry Churchill wrote:
> My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 01:57PM
>
> Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:
> > This is worse than downloading a single mirror. If every body did that
> > the stress on the mirrors would be much worse
My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 02:48PM
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:
> Similarly, I get about 600Kb. But the point is scalability; what happens when
> there's 10 times as many users as there are now? Any system administrator
> will tell you that the issue of scalability
My pet monkey insists that on Sep 23 2003 at 01:57PM
Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> warbled:
> This is worse than downloading a single mirror. If every body did that the
> stress on the mirrors would be much worse than it is already. The good thing
> about bittorrent is that clients would get
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 21:17, Sigurd Stordal wrote:
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> > > > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate
> > > > bittorrent into ebuild so people could use it to download the sources
> > > > from diferent mirrors and even p
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> > > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate
> > > bittorrent into ebuild so people could use it to download the sources
> > > from diferent mirrors and even people could share a bit aliviating
If you use prozilla, you'll be abl
Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:40, Pupeno wrote:
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> > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate bittorrent
> > into ebuild so people could use it to download the sources...
>
> I talked to the bittorent
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On Monday 22 September 2003 06:45 pm, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> I talked to the bittorent author about this and he was happy to help,
> and it would be nice to add this functionality. He did point out that
> bittorrent works best with large files like I
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:45:00PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:40, Pupeno wrote:
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> > I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate bittorrent into
> > ebuild so people could use it to download t
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 16:40, Pupeno wrote:
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> I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate bittorrent into
> ebuild so people could use it to download the sources from diferent mirrors
> and even people could share a bit alivia
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I was just thinking if it wouldn't be a good idea to integrate bittorrent into
ebuild so people could use it to download the sources from diferent mirrors
and even people could share a bit aliviating mirrors' task... of course, the
current way shoul
> You said you only tried it a couple times--maybe the problem is with the
> particular torrent(s) you tried?
Might be. I managed to get one downloaded fine. But the 2 Animatrix ones I
tried seem to hang at connecting to peers. I am behind a MASQ router - it
looks like there's an option to di
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:45:31PM -0400, MIKE MacMartin wrote:
> More info... in a bttest.py run, here's the list of fails:
>
> the following tests failed:
> BitTorrent.Downloader.test_choke_clears_active
> BitTorrent.Downloader.test_got_have_single
> BitTorrent.Downloader.test_stops_at_backlog
>
On June 29, 2003 11:43 pm, MIKE MacMartin wrote:
> I emerged the (masked) bittorrent... and I've tried it twice. It seems to
> hang on "connecting to peers". This may be because it's slow on dialup or
> because at the other place I tried, the firewall didn't allow port 6667?
> or is it a buggy c
I emerged the (masked) bittorrent... and I've tried it twice. It seems to
hang on "connecting to peers". This may be because it's slow on dialup or
because at the other place I tried, the firewall didn't allow port 6667? or
is it a buggy client?
MIKE
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Hello.
I emerged in bittorrent and downloaded the .ISO for RTCW-ET and had
the program running for about a day, now it gets "Connection refused"
when its trying to connect.
ERROR (06:59 PM) -
Problem connecting to tracker -
Would anyone know how to rectify this problem please?
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On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:43, Richard Revis wrote:
> Is there a .torrent file for the Gentoo ISOs (it's not especially needed
> with the likes of mirror.ac.uk handling files, but it might reduce load
> somewhat).
>
> Equally, is it possible to grab some of the largest source archives (like
> open o
Is there a .torrent file for the Gentoo ISOs (it's not especially needed
with the likes of mirror.ac.uk handling files, but it might reduce load
somewhat).
Equally, is it possible to grab some of the largest source archives (like
open office) via a torrent, either manually or automatically via eme
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