[ATTN] Susan Bugher

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On Fri 25 Nov 2005 20:55:56, MLC wrote:
venerd 25 novembre 2005 Franklin ha scritto:
Norman, let me try to explain Bittorrents.
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This your post has been very helpful for me too, I've saved it
for future reference. Thank you Franklin!
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Am pleased if it helps you.
 
On Sat 26 Nov 2005 13:44:29, JoeA wrote:
A torrent site that is clean, legal, not loaded with warez or
porn
would be nice. The site should not force you to register or
require you to download their own software.
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There are quite a lot of sites which should be ok for you. Hunt
through some of the web pages you get taken to by the links in my
posting earlier in this thread and you will find several such sites.
 
DevilsPGD said:
Once you have the original ISO created, you create a .torrent (either on
your own tracker, one of the free ones around the net, or I can probably
host a tracker too if needed)

You only need to get one copy of the ISO to one person who can create
the .torrent file (if you can't do it yourself)

Once the .torrent is created, whoever creates the .torrent file needs to
seed it, superseeder mode is good if you have limited bandwidth, the
torrent network will deal with the rest of the distribution.

Those of us willing to run torrent mirrors/seeds just first up the
.torrent file along with all the other downloaders. As my server
receives parts it will proceed to offer those parts to the rest of the
torrent network participants, the only difference is that unlike people
on slow cable/DSL lines, my server can easily push 60-90Mb/s sustained.
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Thanks to Franklin et al for posting all the good info and links - I did
some reading last night and this subject is starting to become a little
less murky. . . ;)

AFAIK we'll only need a BitTorrent for a brief period of time - to allow
ACF participants to download ASAP - I don't think there's enough demand
to warrant one later.

µTorrent is a PL2006 selection. I see it's possible to make a
trackerless torrent with that. It sounds as if that might be an
advantage in this case. Any thoughts on that?

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php

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What is DHT?

DHT (Distributed Hash Table, technical explanation) is an addition to
certain BitTorrent clients that allows them to work without a tracker.
What this means is that your client will be able to find peers even when
the tracker is down, or doesn't even exist anymore. It allows the swarm
to continue as normal without a tracker. You can also host torrents
without a tracker. (see Does µTorrent support trackerless torrents?).

µTorrent's DHT implementation is the same as Mainline and BitComet's,
but unfortunately this is incompatible with Azureus's implementation.

Does µTorrent support trackerless torrents?

Yes, it does. The torrent creator can also make trackerless torrents.
You cannot use Magnet URIs to download a torrent, though the function is
planned planned for the future.
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Susan
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