Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:22:56 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, stable@freebsd.org, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: No more torrents..... Message-ID: <CAGE5yCrYcPD8Hd=HWfkAvzQFzVzBS9Xb_63ZtrQd3KdwP0XdnA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBmCT5f46sda_ABGpL0xOhGDAr-iEPB%2BN=mNey8AeFMYbunQQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <50D0308A.9000200@digiware.nl> <CAF6rxg=s23H5k-Hwzg=aj_--ju4vuA2sC35W=3fZgoiCr2mQdA@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo838e0YMe-1CrPBEYJySpq2oXADvO1qN2HS80y-5W1590kQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGE5yCove76TQqcN98GDv7Q0YTPj=OruG4JPfjas8TvZ=7oh7A@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBmCT5f46sda_ABGpL0xOhGDAr-iEPB%2BN=mNey8AeFMYbunQQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> 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
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