Re: [Openpacket-devel] site requirements

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

Not yet, but will take a closer look.  Just took a quick peek and it looks
like it may be more actively maintained than BNBT, which would be good.  I'm
not sure if the distributed tracker would be necessary for openpacket.org,
as I'm thinking redundancy is more of an issue if you're expecting to get
shut down by the authorities, but it would still be a good idea in general.
I'm going to try and get educated on the topic by people who run torrent
sites and who would hopefully have dealt with the issues before.

Thanks,
-Tim

On 7/23/06, Richard Bejtlich <tao...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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
>



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Tim Furlong
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