I've identified and fixed the issues with the BitTorrent trackers on the
servers, and now the Plucker tracker is up and running again. 

The upstream BitTorrent and BitTornado sources have been patched with my
fix so the tracker should no longer spontaneously crash as before. 

To get a tarball of the torrents to help seed releases, just point your
browser to the following file: 

http://downloads.plkr.org/plucker-torrents-04182007.tar.bz2

Unpack it into an empty directory and seed with your favorite client.

If you're interested in helping seed pilot-link or J-Pilot's releases,
their tarball-o-torrents can be found here: 

http://downloads.jpilot.org/jpilot-torrents-04182007.tar.bz2
http://downloads.pilot-link.org/pilot-link-torrents-04182007.tar.bz2

To see the status of the tracker (including all downloads, seeds and
peers), just point your browser to the following URL: 

http://torrents.plkr.org:8000/

Every seed and peer helps, and contrary to the current media spin on the
matter, BitTorrent is secure, and does not "open your machine up to the
Internet", or to malware or anything of the sort.. unless you
specifically tell it to do so (and that certainly is not the default
behavior). 

I've written a BitTorrent mini-FAQ several years ago when I deployed
BitTorrent for our releases of Plucker, which you can read here, if
you're interested in learning more about how we use it, how it works and
so on: 

http://www.plkr.org/plkr-bt-minifaq.html

Help out if you can, it can only help everyone else... 

-- 
David A. Desrosiers - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, 
ballot, jury and ammo. Use in that order. Starting now."

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