On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:54:49 +0200 "Dr. Peter Pöml" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Peter, I hope it's ok if i just say Peter and not Dr. Pöml ? > I see. > > Maybe it could be useful to report this as a bug to Transmission development > (which looks like an open source project, at first glance). The behaviour > should be improved, I guess. That could / should be done but im afraid thats not the end of the story. Transmission ist just one of the clients with such behavior. I can compile a list if you want. In the last 3 weeks these clients hit my mirror with the following numbers: 203813 hits resulting in 74.05 GB Traffic. > > So what is needed is a way to configure mirrors to be excluded from > > being added to the url-list. Or when that is too much effort disabling > > of the webseeds altogether. > > Particular mirrors? Which ones do you think should be excluded? tdf.key-server.de > I don't see many requests for torrents made by Transmission clients on our > server: only about 5 per day. Maybe it's not that serious? Who disliked this > behaviour? I think thats me. > Transmission clients seem to identify by their HTTP user agent header, so > yes, in the end it should be practical to return webseed-free torrents to > them. Of course that should be possible but there are different clients as mentioned above and i also don't support torrent at all. I looked into that and it seems that torrent is not intended to be a daemon on linux systems and therefore isn't very well supported at all. Have a nice WE. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / yours sincerely Sebastian Urbach ---------------------------------------------------------- One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world ---------------------------------------------------------- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) Russian novelist, dramatist, historian and Nobel Prize winner -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/mirrors/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
