> > Furthermore, would like to block torrent downloads from outside
> > of the local network (sorry Debian mirrors!).
>
> This is of course not supported or even recommended because you aren't
> gaining or contributing anything by doing it this way.
True, blocking (bittorrent) transfers from inside to outside the local
network is not contributing.
But, forcing (bittorrent) transfers to use only torrents on the local
network
does help speed up the transfer and reduces Debian mirror usage. (The local
network is faster than the connection to the internet.)
>Perhaps you want to use something like apt-proxy or apt-cacher on your local
> network?
I've looked around a bit and apt-zeroconf would be perfect (if it
worked):
It shares apt's cache to the local network, it downloads from other
apt-zeroconf instances on the local network, and is automatically discovered
using zeroconf. Every local computer is a package cache that doesn't need to
be manually configured. (The current version 0.4.1 doesn't work correctly on
IPv4 only networks. :( )
As I currently understand DebTorrent, it is very similar to apt-proxy
or
apt-cacher except that non-cached files are downloaded using bittorrent with
http to mirror fallback. It was the bittorrent part that I thought would
help share packages among all computers in the local network without
additional configuration. I guess I stirred some KTorrent zeroconf plugin
into my thinking by accident!
Thanks for all your info!
C.
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