Re: [Openpacket-devel] site requirements

[Richard B. <tao...@gm...>]

On 7/23/06, Tim Furlong <fu...@cc...> wrote:
> Let's try this again, this time from the address I registered with the list.
> :p
>
> ---
>
> 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
>

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the update.  Any opinion on

http://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/trackerbt/

Thanks,

Richard