On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:57:37 +0200, Christian wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> -----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. ..and rightfully so, amule has a search function and the first 2 boxes I looked at, had ahem copyrighted music etc in when I fetched K5dvd, the second time I looked, everybody behaved like I was RIAA or BSA or FBI or something. ..bottom line is FG _is_ a MSFS competitor, and distributing anything FG on P2P where it is possible to find any law shark fodder, allows Microsoft bleeding us dry making us pay a lawyer to tell the judge to toss out the case everydamned time they find (or lure in) some dork with stolen binaries, music etc. Assuming he does every time, that still bleeds us dry paying our lawyer, to have the judge make Microsoft pay us costs and damages, he will wanna hear the case, and we can only pray for Groklaw coverage. Average price for this kinda litigation is US$ 3mill. .._if_ we go the P2P way, we would need to scare off anyone who isn't squeaky clean, by turning them into RIAA, BSA, FBI etc or face litigation. > > 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. ..I just learned bittorrent is a bit different to a|e|xmule p2p, I used amule to fetch Knoppix, and the wise approach is do it on a _dedicated_ machine in a DMZ. Anyone here with experience on _both_ bittorrent and *mule? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
