Re: Fedora bittorrent tracker?

[Seth Vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:23:43PM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >  /usr/bin/maketorrent-console \
> >      http://torrent.fedoraproject.org:6969/announce
> > file_or_dir_to_torrent
>
> This is probably getting way off-topic, but how does it know
> where the initial seed(s) are?

the seeds all have the .torrent file
it doesn't care whether they are initial or not - all the seeds talk to 
the tracker to tell it what they have so it can tell other clients where 
to talk to.

-sv