I included some BitTorrent documentation in this article - http://advogato.org/article/316.html You all should read it just 'cause it's a good guide to...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 2, 2001 10:28 pm
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I just put up version 2.0 of BitTorrent you can get it here - http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ I'm very excited about this release - it has a whole new UI,...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 10, 2001 1:52 am
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After much multi-platform wrangling today, we're now up to release 2.0.2, with still no success getting it to work under windows (anybody got access to a...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 10, 2001 7:10 am
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Running 2.0.2. I succesfully downloaded the MercyMercyMercy.mp3 file. I am unable to publish files though. I have tried a large file and a small file,...
mlist-bittorent@...
Aug 14, 2001 1:40 am
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... Hooray! ... It's not hanging - it's waiting for people to download from you. What happens is, if only one person is downloading they get it from you, and...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:38 am
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I did a multi-machine test the other day with help from drue and desaster, and it worked (yaay!) but indicated that the tcp backoff problem hurts performance...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:43 am
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I took a stab at getting it to build on windows using cygwin today. It still doesn't work but I got farther than anyone has before. First, for some odd reason...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:55 am
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... I checked the logs on my publicist, and it appears the problem was you tried to publish a file with spaces and equal signs in it. That results in two...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 14, 2001 4:22 pm
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... I have tried publishing a file named "doi.txt" with the same results as before. These are the command-lines I am using: ./publish.py...
mlist-bittorrent@...
Aug 14, 2001 7:43 pm
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... I just succeeded in downloading the declaration of independence from you using my publicist. The command was - ./download.py...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 14, 2001 7:51 pm
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... I can't download from you on this one - chances are it's detecting the IP as 127.0.0.1, and relaying that on to me, and of course I can't download from...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 14, 2001 8:03 pm
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I have now finished rewriting Downloader completely (it's a *lot* cleaner now) and done substantial tweaking to SingleBlob, MultiBlob, and Throttler (I...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 17, 2001 6:16 am
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... cleaner ... Throttler ... SingleBlob ... elo ^_^ i'm just new in this group, i joined because i'm curious about this bitTorrent thing that i saw posted on...
Yaten Kou
yaten@...
Aug 20, 2001 1:23 am
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... Hell Yaten - what was the pcexchange group BitTorrent was discussed on? I haven't seen it as a referrer in the logs. New in coding status - major headway...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 23, 2001 6:52 am
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you won't see that in your referer logs because it is not a web page, its just an ML group that discuss things related to PC ^_^ anyway, if you don't mind,...
Yaten Kou
yaten@...
Aug 23, 2001 9:29 am
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Well, I've done the last really 'hardcore' piece of engineering work, you can get the new release here - http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html This...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 24, 2001 3:24 am
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What do you get when you lock Ken Kesey, Jerry Garcia, "Wavy Gravy," "Mt. Girl," and a few other Pranksters in a room with musical instruments and a bunch of...
Sarah Tohnen
sarah_tohnen@...
Aug 24, 2001 5:50 am
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Hello! My name is Janet Casey and I'm working for the Free Software Foundation assembling a directory of free software world wide, which is why I'm writing to...
Janet Casey
jcasey@...
Aug 24, 2001 3:02 pm
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... Hello Janet. I've made comments on the stuff which should be changed below. ... bencode.py and btemplate.py are under the lgpl, the rest is public domain. ...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 25, 2001 12:53 am
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anyone have luck on 4.3 FreeBSD? it seems to build without complaint, but when I try to download the demo file mentioned in the README, I get 5-6 copies of - ...
gbroiles@...
Aug 28, 2001 1:28 pm
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... I was getting that on a bsd box too - I took another look at it and managed to fix the problem by making encrypt() inline by changing it's declaration to...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 29, 2001 5:22 am
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And once you do that it will start complaining about entropy not working - apparently /dev/random doesn't return the number of bytes you request on bsd (?) You...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 29, 2001 5:39 am
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/dev/random will hang if it doesn't think it's got a good source of randomness - if you add a line to the /etc/rc.conf (on FreeBSD, anyway) file, like this - ...
Greg Broiles
gbroiles@...
Aug 29, 2001 3:39 pm
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... *sigh* I think I'll campaign to get an entropy module with the same interface as mine put into the python standard libraries, since this is a hairy problem...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 29, 2001 5:14 pm
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... Cool. Now that the machine is configured to find entropy, and the encrypt() function in _StreamEncrypter.c is inlined, BitTorrent successfully sends and...
Greg Broiles
gbroiles@...
Aug 29, 2001 6:35 pm
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... ...whereas /dev/urandom won't. --Steven...
Steven Hazel
sah@...
Aug 29, 2001 6:50 pm
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... Turns out /dev/srandom on OpenBSD will provide entropy - but it doesn't like being accessed via pipes a la (cat /dev/srandom | wc -c); using dd (like dd...
Greg Broiles
gbroiles@...
Aug 29, 2001 7:04 pm
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... Truth be known, /dev/urandom is always just as good as /dev/random, and /dev/random should really be changed to not block. BitTorrent mostly just uses link...
Bram Cohen
bram@...
Aug 30, 2001 5:50 pm
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... Really? Do you have a reference for that? --Steven...
Steven Hazel
sah@...
Aug 30, 2001 7:26 pm
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... It's explained here - http://www.counterpane.com/pseudorandom_number.html In a nutshell, as long as the prng has a sufficient amount of entropy to be...
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