From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 10 18:04:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 678D3CF for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x231.google.com (mail-wg0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9F2F1744 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id a1so4383447wgh.4 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:04:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zKvagX4l45snxK37rHBk93kCs7JNkF80pv7BZ7n73l4=; b=rYuNAsbDhwxgNGlsMYbCQtLDnadfgXP2eFu7En7/cQkcz1opnP6a5HdC3T7KAUX+Xu WrUB0c9CtiW1azZcWfB5QzEwXTr0jVunfVY8POuUBP+9dMxi2Rm7QhRtyoeFHxYJ8HGW HE778jkdTQoCqRIEBmDiKFVJFEWNHDX+U4UrO/f7DZU1MdR6NEnVL/AK3uPedJw7B6IG TrAuuueWR+UUSoEeZYPp2PEbue030ZZwMXzDem8x5gXMiIVlxSqfFbBzH4cDpwL+bREl Z4mFYmEni1QYfiGf10FsEuBWAkKw3z4oFyo59uBy9QFSej2EmT5qFJMinrjDi0SEhACn RuTA== X-Received: by 10.194.92.199 with SMTP id co7mr23057786wjb.14.1392055486279; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (2e40c5d2.skybroadband.com. [46.64.197.210]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ua8sm37250876wjc.4.2014.02.10.10.04.44 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:04:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:04:43 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to find FreeBSD torrent file Message-ID: <20140210180443.39cd8a75@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20140210041005.GA50898@neutralgood.org> References: <1391945788.29258.YahooMailNeo@web140803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20140210023754.GC99503@neutralgood.org> <20140210034455.GS89104@funkthat.com> <20140210041005.GA50898@neutralgood.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:04:48 -0000 On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:10:05 -0500 kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 07:44:55PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Why don't we set up trackerless torrents? I've been meaning to do > > that, but the last time I tried to seed a trackerless torrent, the > > other person never was able to d/l it, and I haven't tried again.. > > The existing torrents already function as trackerless in the absence > of the tracker. That's just basic BitTorrent. > BitTorrent clients have both PEX and DHT to exchange notes on who has > what. But two different clients still need to have some central point > of contact. The point of DHT is to let peers find each other without a tracker. Once your client connects to a peer that supports PEX, it can find the rest quickly. When Bittorrent has come up before there hasn't been much enthusiasm for it, it has problems with firewalls and traffic shaping and apparently there isn't much of a problem with server bandwidth anyway. Most of us only download full ISOs rarely.