Fedora bittorrent tracker?

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 1 18:36:14 UTC 2009



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




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