On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:07:11AM -0700, Jeff Shippen wrote: > Does everyone know how to use Bit Torrent (the downloading part > anyway)? It isn't too hard to learn on that side, I haven't quite > figured out how to start a Torrent server, which would prove very > efficient for sharing video/audio.
I read a bit about bit torrent the last time I read about how to download Debian ISOs. (didn't use it, but I did read about it.) One illuminating bit said something like "when you finish downloading, please leave bit torrent running for a little while to help load balance...." I take this to mean a server is started by default when downloading a file that serves the file you are presently downloading. to be the primary source of a file you wish to serve via bit torrent, I get the impression from the various man pages that you need to create a series of meta files, which you make available via http. those contain information about a "designated tracker". a tracker is a program that tracks the progress of a download, and if I'm not mistaken, there needs to be at least one running on every bit torrent node. that's my long winded guess. :) A URL I didn't follow is referenced in the btdownloadheadless man page: http://bitcon-jurer.org/BitTorrent/protocol.html - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
