I'd like to add few explanations for people who would not know the internals of Bittorrent.
The standard functioning of the protocol is that clients announce on servers the files they own and share. People looking for these files have to connect to the same announce servers and ask for peers owning the files. Of course if nobody has claimed to be sharing the files, the peer list is empty and the demander will not receive anything. Unfortunately there are many torrent sites with as many announce channels, which decreases the probability to find the stuff. As you can see, we need to provide a reduced set of announce servers in our torrents (torrent files specify the announce URL's) otherwise people won't reach each other. The ideal situation would even be to provide only one, but due to possible losses of service, a set of servers is preferred. Then comes the second issue: public access. If you provide a channel with restricted or private access, people will have to register before being able to download, which may be annoying and surely less easy than a standard download. In our torrents I selected public channels, but they seem to be frequently overloaded. This is why I think the best solution is to host our own announce server in the end. JM. ----- [email protected] a écrit : > It seems there are a lot of troubles with announce channels. I tested > 5 URL's and had 4 ones showing availability issues during the > week-end! I wonder if we shouldn't rather host our own announce > server. The main issue is to find a way setup a public channel (no > authentication, no account) while avoiding people to divert its use, > especially to share copyrighted contents. > > What do you mean by replacing your seeds? You're using alternative > announce channels? If yes, do you have many downloaders? On > openbittorrent.com there were few yesterday evening and this night. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
