Fedora Torrent seeder plans and future

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 20 January 2012 16:23, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> As some of you may know, we are migrating all of Fedora Infrastructure
> over to RHEL6 from the old existing RHEL5 servers. This allows us to
> offer newer/better services and have faster/better upstream support for
> our services. As part of this migration we have come to our torrent
> server ( torrent.fedoraproject.org ).
>

I see there were outstanding questions about the torrents from the
board, but I am not exactly sure what they were:

I will put in the costs as I see:

1) current server/seeder is no longer maintained or opensource
2) replacement code servers are either:
 a) meant to be run from a desktop and not good un-supervised server items
 b) compile various bits and configs in statically.
3) Due to large amount of copyright violations torrent ports and
protocols are becoming harder to get access to in the US making
seeding harder for main servers.
4) We get more service requests for EOL seeds than we do present ones
that aren't seeded.


Benefits as I see them:

1) Slow speed downloads are "faster overall" via torrent than rsync.
[Faster being measured in continual net speed and automatic error
recovery.]
2) Clients outside of US don't have as many problems as US in closed
ports or active net blocking

Solutions:
1) Fedora uses closed sourced torrent server for ipv6 and other options.
2) We publish the torrent 'seeds' and signatures for other sites and
users to set up.

others reported.

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Stephen J Smoogen.
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