Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:25:38 -0800 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> 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: <CAGBmCT7%2BmxB_dbyOZU=ee7N3Y=vd15OUEZXcsNpC7w7xJ614wA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGE5yCrYcPD8Hd=HWfkAvzQFzVzBS9Xb_63ZtrQd3KdwP0XdnA@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> <CAGE5yCrYcPD8Hd=HWfkAvzQFzVzBS9Xb_63ZtrQd3KdwP0XdnA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote: > 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. > 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
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