... I didn't find any sensible description of how use "announce-list". Pointers welcomed. ... Currently I'm implementing features that I use. My "usual"...
... It's at http://bittornado.com/ But tha site isn't available at the moment. ... Hmm, please ask your usual trackers to support UDP too. ;-> ... -- Olaf van...
... You're supposed to ignore announce if announce-list is present. And the announce list supports both backup trackers and load balancing, while you only...
... Hash: SHA1 Attached is a copy of the Multitracker Spec document from the BitTornado site (and source package). The announce-list defined from that spec is...
... Good. I will read the spec carefully and will implement the "correct" algorithm. Thx. I would like some comment (about my patches) from the core BT...
... No, you swapped it. My algorithm does backup, not load balancing :-p. I get a sort of load balancing because the list is shuffle in each client, so...
... Hash: SHA1 Well it was attached anyway. I'll post a copy of it at http://depthstrike.com/cbtt/multitracker-spec.txt - -----Original Message----- From:...
... I do a single try for every announce period. That is, if the period is 30 minutes, I try a new tracker every 30 minutes. A bit slow to ramp up but gently...
... Hash: SHA1 I have a copy of the current BitTornado source package if you want to see how the official announce-list handling is done in it. - -----Original...
... Hash: SHA1 I'll demonstrate an announce list with multiple tiers that have multiple trackers. Tier 0: tracker0 tracker1 tracker2 Tier 1: UDPtracker3...
... I already understand the algorithm, Harold. But I assume that when you detect a tracker failure, you try another one in a sort period. Let say, 60 seconds....
... Good. Current BT codebase doesn't have a simple way to "notify" timeouts between threads, so the main thread "commands" a new announcement every 30...
... Hash: SHA1 They were only given as an example olaf. - -----Original Message----- From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:OvdSpek@...] Sent: Friday, October...
Plugging BitTornado code into mainline is near impossible.. they may have started off the same, but shad0w's fork has grown too different in internal...
... hehehe. i don't know if Bram responded to you or not. Regardless I can guess his likely answer on that would be "no!". I was the first developer of...
... "Load balancing" is nice, but unless the trackers you're load balancing between are able to talk to each other, you'll wind up with separate swarms on each...
John Hoffman
theshadow@...
Oct 8, 2004 8:26 pm
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The --allow_get 1 support in track.py is broken. it uses a binary sha1 in a hyperlink. the attached patch against cvs fixes it to use and expect a hex value....
... Do you mean that the network might choose to drop your packet because its "out of date" and the network assomes its something like voice? This sounds like...
I just got my cable shutoff because MGM contacted my cable provider about downloading/uploading the movie "Wicker Park." Although i did get it turn back on...
I'm running the curses version of the original bittorrent client on a vps (virtual private server) linux account that only has 64MB of ram. I've had mixed...