On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 16:15 -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:36:54PM -0600, Dave Smith wrote: > > Michael Halcrow wrote: > > >If you are serious about an academic investigation of P2P, then I > > >recommend you forget about Gnutella, KaZaA, or any other > > >``best-effort'' shoot-from-the-hip solutions out there. > > > > Two questions for Mr H: > > > > Does BitTorrent fall into this category as well, or does it command > > more respect in the academic P2P community? > > From what I know about BitTorrent, it depends on a tracker, so it > fails to satisfy the third requirement in the list I gave (routing > information is not evenly distributed among the hosts in the network).
For now, that's true. They're working on a trackerless version where
effectively very client is a light weight tracker. That's probably a
good thing. I've heard of popular trackers getting really slammed even
from the relatively little amount of bandwidth, which for a widely
downloaded file can still be substantial.
http://www.bittorrent.com/trackerless.html
Corey
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