Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote: most of the larger free-nix's do BT downloads on release day(s). Revision3 distributes their content via BT. There were rumors of Disney and Apple moving to BT models for their content distribution at one point as well. random type=idea from

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 18 Jun 2008, at 10:42, Adrian Chadd wrote: random type=idea from tonight If only there was a way for a SP to run a BitTorrent type service for their clients, subscribing the BT server(s) to known-good (ie, not warez-y) torrents pre-seeded from trusted sources and then leaving it the hell

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 18, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote: most of the larger free-nix's do BT downloads on release day(s). Revision3 distributes their content via BT. There were rumors of Disney and Apple moving to BT models for their content

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:52:38AM -0400, Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 41 lines which said: The behaviour I have observed with BitTorrent is that clients are handed a relatively short list of potential peers by the tracker, and it's quite common for sensible, close, local

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/06/2008, at 2:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 18 Jun 2008, at 10:42, Adrian Chadd wrote: random type=idea from tonight If only there was a way for a SP to run a BitTorrent type service for their clients, subscribing the BT server(s) to known-good (ie, not warez-y) torrents pre-seeded from

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Blaine Fleming
Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Netfortius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody used (and been successful at) a bit-torrent-like agent for fast distribution of LEGAL software (install programs of large-DVD size), across multiple sites, all over the globe, with bad

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Laird Popkin
- From: Blaine Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:20:28 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!? Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Netfortius [EMAIL

A pipe dream? [WAS: Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?]

2008-06-18 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:42:22PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: [...] random type=idea from tonight If only there was a way for a SP to run a BitTorrent type service for their clients, subscribing the BT server(s) to known-good (ie, not warez-y) torrents pre-seeded from trusted sources and then

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Justin Shore
Nathan Ward wrote: There was a product around that would keep track of torrents and fudge the tracker responses to direct you to on-net peers where possible. Not sure what it's called. Inline box thing, much like Sandvine, Allot, etc. I imagine you could either inject the details of a local

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-17 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 6/17/08, Christopher Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Netfortius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody used (and been successful at) a bit-torrent-like agent for fast distribution of LEGAL software (install programs of large-DVD size), across multiple

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Netfortius wrote: Has anybody used (and been successful at) a bit-torrent-like agent for fast distribution of LEGAL software (install programs of large-DVD size), across multiple sites, all over the globe, with bad WAN connectivity? I have read a couple of references online (e.g.

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:19:19 -0700 Joel Jaeggli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that said the p2p client does rule out needing to select a mirror that has free slots during a flash crowd. As Mozilla is learning today: