Fedora ftp site?

[Richard Ayer III]

Maybe each system could keep a list of servers they are willing to talk to,
and then when tracker sends the master list to the client, the client could
send a list back to the tracker which has the matches between the master and
local lists?

Richard Ayer III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seth vidal" <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
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Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora ftp site?


> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 16:08 -0600, Richard Ayer III wrote:
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> > I think I see what you're saying.
> > Plus, I didn't even think of cross-continent excess info issues.
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> Probably what would be worthwhile is some work to be done on the current
> bittorrent tracker and launcher code to allow restricted ip lists.
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> so the tracker could say: allow connections from these systems
> and the clients could send a list of systems they can talk to, from that
> list, to the tracker.
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> so when someone in europe wants to get some data, the tracker knows not
> to hand the european mirror the url to the australian peer.
>
> The tracker is actually shockingly simple code and handling restricted
> ip lists should not be very hard. Handling which peers get sent to each
> other might be a bit trickier.
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