On Sat, Sep 25, 2010, Matthew Walster wrote: > I once read an article talking about making BitTorrent scalable by > using anycasted caching services at the ISP's closest POP to the end > user. Given sufficient traffic on a specified torrent, the caching > device would build up the file, then distribute that direct to the > subscriber in the form of an additional (preferred) peer. Similar to a > CDN or Usenet, but where it was cached rather than deliberately pushed > out from a locus. > > Was anything ever standardised in that field? I imagine with much of > P2P traffic being (how shall I put this...) less than legal, it's of > questionable legality and the ISPs would not want to be held liable > for the content cached there?
I don't recall any protocols being standard. Plenty of people sell p2p caches but they all work using magic, smoke and mirrors. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $24/pm+GST entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
