Additional IPv6 Bittorrent tracker

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On 13.02.2010 18:49, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

Meh, I just noticed that my mail below never got to the list, because I 
wasn't fully subscribed before I hit send (and apparently it got lost in 
the moderation queue).

See my comments below ... out of curiosity, I assume it is now too late 
to get this in place for F13 due to the infrastructure freeze, even if 
you were to use an external (i.e. my) IPv6 tracker?

Best Regards,
Bernhard

> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:33:39AM -0600, Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:
>
> Hi Matt,
>
>> We do have a Xen host and several VMs on native IPv6 hosted at ibiblio.org, which is
>> where we would want to run such a tracker ourselves if possible.  The goal was to
>> run the opentracker-v6 in parallel with the existing bittorrent-based tracker.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/IPv6
>> notes our v6 infrastructure.
>
> Ah, no clue how I missed that. You even have AAAA records for the main
> website :-\
>
>> The problem wasn't just that statistics were unavailable (which would
>> be a problem - we like having some counts of download methods), but
>> that even retrieving them via http would crash the tracker. :-(
>
> Weird, the tracker I run is of course far from having the load of the
> official Fedora tracker, but it did not crash once for me in the last
> seven weeks. Fresh CVS checkout of libowfat and opentracker as of Dec
> 27th, compiled and running on an amd64 Debian (*hide*) VM. I poll the
> statistics with HTTP every minute and it has ~300 peers connected to it.
>
>> I looked into Azureus briefly, but IIRC it's java-based?  We don't
>> have any java in our infra environment right now.  That doesn't mean
>> we couldn't add it, but most FI maintainers aren't java experts.  I
>> haven't looked into BitTornado.
>
> Yes, it's Java based and even requires X (as far as I know). And I would
> not really recommend BitTornado, it's extremely old and doesn't even
> expire peer entries correctly as far as I could see.
>
>> Thank you for your offer to host though - that's something we can
>> consider.  The infrastructure list (copied) is the right place for
>> this discussion.
>
> Subscribing now ...
>
> Bernhard