From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 23:25:40 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 EE1FF6DE for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f178.google.com (mail-vc0-f178.google.com [209.85.220.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940518FC0A for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f178.google.com with SMTP id x16so1607220vcq.23 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:25:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=aZ95HimCxLi+qlD28kcIwGkmXvOvY2JtHImVbK9iH/c=; b=0lE0S8MlXg3M1txT083WKc8uD+ULX7qbBRw6LOqvw2PxRnjefBBiICtX9Xmm+Tx8J3 bUKzStqA7EAffJp7XUKtGRoI/BSPBZB5EqOH0mts5cUPk5eTMWvT404Tz7C9ixuX57Hb 0JrSHMQuse/IJRj/7ruQJTNLENfTZGsL47uhH2kqc3DX+20PIqP0U5Fkfv70vx/5uoIc 7zWZjB5XXVnuYkx3oSs/6oIvepHNLppspXzd0yDmS/8sYpnzNfravU0eG7RSVziAebKx vILITyNKuhXH4+UtSp8yfaISAl8B0Pqd3KIQmxaBj217VTpmdyVWkpMVkq2fM6b6W91/ pXTg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.36.19 with SMTP id m19mr5084432vdj.33.1355873138689; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.221.230 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:25:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50D0308A.9000200@digiware.nl> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:25:38 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: No more torrents..... From: pete wright To: Peter Wemm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 23:25:40 -0000 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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. > ah ok - understood. well i'll keep an eye on the lists, and if some trackerless torrents become available i'll be sure to contribute my resources to this :) I'd volunteer to help build them but unfortunately my human bandwidth is limited atm. cheers, -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA