On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:37 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:06 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:37:17 -0500:
Anybody know how I can do the equivalent "distributed" for CentOS on 4.6 or 5.1?
It's called DHT in utorrent and is indeed working quite nice without a tracker. Maybe there are Linux clients that support DHT?
Kai
Thanks to both Kai and Michael Simpson for the clues to get my search started. I yum installed, from rpmforge (big thanks to Dag), bittorrent- gui.noarch (4.4.x) and went to
file:///usr/share/doc/bittorrent-4.4.0/TRACKERLESS.txtLooks like it might be the ticket. Seems to be supporting what y'all called DHT. It says it will not mess with tracked downloads. It supports conventional tracked torrents too.
I'm going to give it a try and will report back.
Again, thanks to all for the help, including Florin, John and Johnny for the help in initial problem resolution.
And Jim and ... all
FYI: bittorrent-gui from rpmforge is working well on my 5.1 CentOS. My only complaint is that it seems unfriendly to the GUI-impaired, such as myself. "MORE DATA", I keep screaming. But that's the nature of GUI and me.
I see no way to test it without a tracker unavailable unless the CentOS tracker dies again.
However, the -console and -curses versions seem to support trackerless operation. If they use the data stashed in ~/.bittorrent/data directory, I should be able to use the --start_trackerless_client and see what happens. However, the --help output says this is to download trackerless torrents. What this implies, I am unsure of. Can the CentOS stuff be "trackerless" once I've acquired routing/DHT tables?
Thx,