-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Curtis L. Olson schrieb: > Rob Oates wrote: > >> Is it possible we could use bittorrent as an alternate means of >> distributing the world scenery? This seems to be the P2P protocol of >> choice that NASA and several Linux distros now use for distributing >> very large files. Maybe we could use it too? >> > > > I have no problem if someone wants to start a bittorrent server from one > of the FG mirrors. I don't think I can do it from the main flightgear > ftp server though. The university goes out looking for bittorrent > traffic (and other commonly abused protocols) and then they immediately > think I'm downloading movies or music or warez or south park episodes. > So they are very skittish of anything like bittorrent running around > here, but if someone else wants to set something up, they are very welcome. >
IIRC you only need to offer the torrent files for the data. The torrent files are just a few kilobytes big and are transfered by nomal HTTP (or FTP if you whish). The allow the BitTorrent client to look for the correct data in the torrent network. Someone somewhere has to offer the files with a BitTorrent client though (otherwise you can't get the .torrent files...). Setting up a BitTorrent client that continusly offers the data helps for availability, but isn't necessary. CU, Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEMTfhlhWtxOxWNFcRApCCAJ9WMY6dlgLM5CmUbrK4wjg2O3/XVwCeM/7j f0ftF8aMHCizuQ6FAhwMkTQ= =/EIH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
