From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 23:22:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21325C7 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:22:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com (mail-vb0-f46.google.com [209.85.212.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E778FC17 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id b13so1616970vby.33 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:22:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=wemm.org; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=nYFem/yitwcJvv+j4sIMDMNodwv2k+US/sO7SljZtfk=; b=fUc7rw6dcxwejp4G+y1wtATqmycx7p0nuf0OV7kgxIwRjIuKRYzkyY0xR5FinltMMg zuwTBODGREFetgScpvKnNdJUnLOc9BR3k6wuTGMkKYjXOpDX93jKJpCwuE613sd+4BEZ 829GjfzQhC3wqpuofQrb6yeQ7o2rsYc5uvEjU= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=nYFem/yitwcJvv+j4sIMDMNodwv2k+US/sO7SljZtfk=; b=U+ZpyqRljMQ0xxAygWv75O3qOwH6C82lX4JNCIQ7eeMVd5KVuHrasS4+JoxJ4uJCz9 wdhOkJgxPIDEmJzevaOyJTJsTqP/SXPOxAYs9Pf3ZCVeb/N/Z+mWljWX63jayh+FLwq/ qkB8/mEYT6YAv5NTSoLG0SEDVIzbH+/R6Hr/dVvi2JbAlElQ4J7TcMMG3hSqSnbAjxl/ td26q8J/aqjJA7TddmQWFW9g/ae478V84sFH+RwNrRwRct9/PbfLDnnjN/zPdPR3GXwx 5lHIIHbSlvv1SRiXYs4loRRJfVgsWkIkH//Cs5EQpVWmqeRjcnbsnWtp4hcynYcLV93w zJOQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.20.108 with SMTP id m12mr5238100vde.11.1355872976618; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.38.71 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:22:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50D0308A.9000200@digiware.nl> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:22:56 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: No more torrents..... From: Peter Wemm To: pete wright Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnSUqBGoK4KuroOgY026WSVbA2SaebQRsVxFm9YC1iXmb2YsDEycsQ4Cdd6BV8mTjBtS6wT Cc: Eitan Adler , stable@freebsd.org, Willem Jan Withagen , Chris Rees X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:22:58 -0000 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, pete wright wrote: >> >> A hybrid of bnbt, xbnbt, xbtt, and something else that I don't recall >> the name of. We ran the seeders from py-bittornado in curses mode in >> about 15 screen sessions.. by hand. >> >> The tracker/indexer code had an open http connect proxy in it (!). >> The code was particularly difficult to work with and looked extremely >> light for defensive programming. (string buffer overflows, the >> works). >> >> The bottom line is the nice indexer / tracker / stats thing we had >> isn't something I feel we can trust. >> >> I do believe we can/should publish trackerless/dht torrent files to go >> with the release binaries. >> >> Perhaps an initial web-seed might work, otherwise we could have a few >> folks with good ftp connectivity do an initial seed from the ftp >> files. > > > I would be very much be willing to assist with seeding if we make dht > torrent files available from my nodes located in downtown Los Angeles > for west-coast and APAC network presence. > > as an aside: > I have been running libtorrent/rtorrent for a bit and it seems like a > pretty decent platform for building on. having said that - I am not a > security researcher and would be keen to hear if libtorrent/rotrrent > suffers from these similar issues? Oh wait, I told a lie. It wasn't py-bittornado we used.. it was rtorrent. Thanks for prompting that. I have no concerns with rtorrent except that it was a curses beastie. It was something we had to manually start up after a machine reboot until we did some evil scripts with screen. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell