On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:12 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 09:25 PM, Jeff Chimene wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:59 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions< >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 02/28/2011 03:06 PM, Marc Paré wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >> >> >> BTW ... we are also looking for space on a server for our ISO as well as >>> >>>> possibility to ftp into the server account. >>>> >>>> To reiterate: Drew and I talked about this at SCaLE, and it seems that >> we're >> better off using P2P to distribute the ISO image. this was also the >> recommendation from RackSpace. >> >> I'd recommend with Tim create and post the .torrent to a tracker of his >> choosing, and provide the initial seed. After that, it's off to the races! >> >> Cheers, >> jec >> >> Never really dealt with .torrent stuff, so I do not know anything about > offering it from a file that I create. > Well, there's lots of stuff on the web about it. Here's a recipe: Ingredients: o BitTorrent client o tracker o input file On demand, the BitTorrent software creates a .torrent file. "A *torrent file * stores metadata used for BitTorrent<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29>" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file The initial seeder (you) uploads the .torrent to a tracker You may have to create a (usually free) account on the tracker. If that's an issue, I'd be happy to create the tracker account and upload the .torrent. A tracker is "... a server <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29> that assists in the communication between peers<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer>using the BitTorrent protocol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29>" See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker In our case, you then send a message to the marketing list with the torrent's URL; which step is usually not necessary, since those hunting for a file know to search trackers. However, since we won't know when you're ready to start seeding, you have to tell us. This step introduces the concept of the seeder. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_BitTorrent#Seeder Those who are interested in the ISO will then download the .torrent file and tell their client software to get the file associated with that .torrent file. This step introduces the concept of the leecher. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leecher#P2P_networks_and_BitTorrent So if there will be a .torrent version No. See above. The .torrent is metadata. > of the DVD I am working on, I would need a lot of help doing that, That's what your client software is for. ISTR you're running Ubuntu? There are several BitTorrent clients available for that distro. See, for example, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent. I will be available to help once the client software is installed. You tell me which client you select, I'll install it on my workstation and we'll go through the steps necessary to create a .torrent. and cannot host the file[s] on my domain account The ISO file won't be on your domain account. It will be on your workstation. The .torrent file will be on your workstation and on the tracker. since it would be a repository and that is not in my contract. Agreed. Not a problem. > I cannot even upload that size of file in any file extension. I think > between 500Meg and 1GB is the limit per file size. You won't be uploading it like that. The BitTorrent client will handle the uploads instead. Your client software will allow you to adjust your upload bandwidth so that you don't consume all your bandwidth in a short amount of time. You can even power down your workstation during the initial seed; downloads in progress will resume when your workstation comes online. Once the file is entirely distributed, the number of seeders will be > 1 (see above, seeders vs. leechers). Cheers, jec -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
