[Openpacket-devel] site requirements

[Tim F. <fu...@cc...>]

Let's try this again, this time from the address I registered with the list.
:p

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Hi,

I'm also interested in pitching in; I've started by looking around at the
options for the BitTorrent tracker route.  I've been meaning to post what
I've found so far, so this is as good an opportunity as any.  There's two
parts to a standard BitTorrent site: the index and the tracker.  The index
lets users find .torrent files, and the tracker takes care of coordinating
the BitTorrent clients that are leeching and seeding the torrent.  These
parts are generally pretty independent, about the only coupling needed is
for when you want to display activity stats for the hosted torrents.  I've
been looking at trackers so far; there's not a lot out there for open-source
indexes, most sites seem to use custom ones.

One of the more popular trackers, BNBT, is in the FreeBSD port tree, though
the entry in the tree seems to just be four small patch files.  Also, I
think it's based on version 8.1beta of BNBT, which has (at least one) known
vulnerability.  The patches will probably work on version 8.5, but I suspect
there's still some work that needs doing to harden it.  It's written in
C++.  The only other tracker software in the tree is trackerbt version
0.1.1(haven't looked at it yet, sorta turned off by the low version
number), and
bittornado (which is a client that includes tracker software).  I think we
can probably use BNBT, with some work.

I'm also partial to MySQL, and I've heard good things about Ruby on Rails,
so I don't have any objections to that plan.  I've been meaning to rough up
a db schema for indexing traces; I can do that and submit it here for
discussion.

Thanks,
-Tim


On 7/23/06, Mark Mason < mas...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I just finished reading the openpacket.org
> requirement doc found here...
> http://openpacket.blogspot.com/
> I would like to participate in building openpacket.org
>
> I know there are other people interested
> in developing this site using a variety of
> technologies.  I don't want to step on
> any toes.  If you can use my skills
> and code, great.  If not, no problem.
>
> I'm going to start building the site using
> the Ruby on Rails framework, MySQL and FreeBSD.
>
> I'll post my progress in a week.
>
> Mark
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