Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Tue, 24 Dec: > Is there some marked leader among the open source peer-to-peer > networks? > > The scale is in terms of reliability of the network, how it copes > with firewalls, how can someone authenticate the content of the files > etc. > > Also it has to be able to download file PARTS from multiple sources and > combine them into one file
my personal preference these days in the Edonkey network, using the MLdonkey client (on nongnu.org). the files are hashed by MD4 and size and not by name, and there are several sites I trust like sharereactor.com that review the shared files and publish an MD4 that was tested to be authentic, and therefore the amount of false files injected is lowered if you use trusted sources. files are loaded from several places in parallel, and your half-downloaded files are shared with others even before all the chunks are there so efficiency is quite good. to add, there is a "score" system, where useful/fast/trusted peers are given priority when they try to download and so the net gets better the longer you use it and get trusted by others. the net is completely commercial free, has several OSS clients, and works (partially) behind firewalls. it's not entirely peer to peer yet, as some of the clients play as servers and you need to discover their IP addresses - a list or two are floating and changing addresses but are followed by dynamic DNS. the next generation eDonkey (google for OverNet) should make this obsolete. MLdonkey (written in Objective CAML -which is oddly a functional language) is a bit of a memory hog but much better than other linux clients. rumors say it's not as efficiant as windows' "eMule", but YMMV. eMule is also GPL, it's actually hosted on sf.net, but no Linux port. -- Silver screen siren Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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