torrent tracker/primary seed software
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 8 14:20:04 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 11:03 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > So,
> > we're setting up the new torrent tracker and we're debating which
> > tracker software to use.
> >
> > bittorrent: 5.2.0 - released in nov 2007 - it's the last open source
> > version b/c apparently the authors got greedy and stupid.
> > It's not painfully out of date, though and it would be
> > relatively to setup and shift over to it.
> >
> > ctorrent: theoretically being maintained and theoretically capable of
> > being a tracker. It doesn't seem to have any nice
> > initscripts. And the configuration for additional trackers
> > looks more convulted than might otherwise be desired. Welcome
> > to suggestions on initscripts, etc
> >
> > rtorrent: not obvious this is a tracker at all. It looks more like an
> > ncurses-based client. Subpar for our usage.
> >
> >
> > In case anyone is unclear what our usage is. We use the torrent
> > tracker/seed as a simple server. We drop files in a directory and they
> > are available on the tracker. It logs what went where and lets us get
> > data out of it about how many things have been downloaded and from
> > where.
> >
> > Open to suggestions about better tracker software to use. Requirements:
> > 1. must be free software
> > 2. must log/record stats
> > 3. must act sensibly
> >
>
> Is cbtt not on this list for a reason? Fedora Unity has been looking
> into using cbtt (from bnbt) and even has some packaging going.
>
> Kind regards,
>
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