Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 07:59 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:32 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Kenneth Porter wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:08:56 -0800: > > > > > Perhaps the next CentOS torrents can add the appropriate records to take > > > advantage of this? > > > > AF

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-23 Thread William L. Maltby
n indeterminate time, I'll kill the GUI and start the > console or ncurses bittorrent with the --trackerless option and see if > it uses the DHT/routing and other information that bittorrent seems to > stash in ~/.bittorrent/data directory. This depends on the presence of > other act

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 13:03 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:30 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> iptables -A OUTPUT -d torrent.centos.org -p tcp --dport 6969 -j DROP > > > > Thanks Kenneth. IIRC, I can use the IP to avoid DNS resoluti

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-21 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:30 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: iptables -A OUTPUT -d torrent.centos.org -p tcp --dport 6969 -j DROP Thanks Kenneth. IIRC, I can use the IP to avoid DNS resolution and do it faster? Yep just did "man ..." and see that. The iptables

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 17:32 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:02:47 -0500: > > > I just need to find a way to make sure that it can't find a conventional > > tracker to see if that parameter has the desired effect. > > But you should allow it to contact a

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:02:47 -0500: > I just need to find a way to make sure that it can't find a conventional > tracker to see if that parameter has the desired effect. But you should allow it to contact a tracker once you are done with the tests. I think with a tracker

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:58 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:02 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just need to find a way to make sure that it can't find a conventional > > tracker to see if that parameter has the desired effect. Fr

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:02 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just need to find a way to make sure that it can't find a conventional tracker to see if that parameter has the desired effect. From what you say, and what I think I've learned, should work OK. And m

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 19:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Rcpt-To: > > William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:59:17 -0500: > > > AFAICT now, at lease an initial successful connection with a tracker, > > You mean for you own client? No. I have successfully downloade

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:02 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Yep, it was what I wanted to do then either! :-{ s/was/wasn't/ > -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 10:34 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> when the CentOS tracker was down, I fired up uTorrent on a Windows box > >> w/ the 5.1 i386 dvd torrent, and it managed to find a few dozen peers > >> in a few minutes... > > Still blissful (ignorance is ...), hit me with a clue bat if

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:43 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Rcpt-To: > > William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:51:39 -0500: > > > Ah, yes. It sounds so simple. But I've been perusing the various > > references available (bittorrent ones are sparse - no man pages) and

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-20 Thread John R Pierce
when the CentOS tracker was down, I fired up uTorrent on a Windows box w/ the 5.1 i386 dvd torrent, and it managed to find a few dozen peers in a few minutes... Still blissful (ignorance is ...), hit me with a clue bat if I'm way off base here. Now, that makes sense (IIUC the implications of

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:59:17 -0500: > AFAICT now, at lease an initial successful connection with a tracker, You mean for you own client? No. I have successfully downloaded files with DHT in the past that weren't available via tracker anymo

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:51:39 -0500: > Ah, yes. It sounds so simple. But I've been perusing the various > references available (bittorrent ones are sparse - no man pages) and if > I want to seed beginning with the ones I've already downloaded,

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:32 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:08:56 -0800: > > > Perhaps the next CentOS torrents can add the appropriate records to take > > advantage of this? > > AFAIK, there is nothing special about it, nothing to add. A DHT aware > cli

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-20 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:20 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > Ah, yes. It sounds so simple. But I've been perusing the various > > references available (bittorrent ones are sparse - no man pages) and if > > I want to seed beginning with the ones I've already downloaded, it

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents

2007-12-19 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: Ah, yes. It sounds so simple. But I've been perusing the various references available (bittorrent ones are sparse - no man pages) and if I want to seed beginning with the ones I've already downloaded, it seems to get more complicated. Port forwarding through my firewall,

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-19 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:32 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Kenneth Porter wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:08:56 -0800: > > > Perhaps the next CentOS torrents can add the appropriate records to take > > advantage of this? > > AFAIK, there is nothing special about it, nothing to add. A DHT aware > cli

Re: [CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kenneth Porter wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:08:56 -0800: > Perhaps the next CentOS torrents can add the appropriate records to take > advantage of this? AFAIK, there is nothing special about it, nothing to add. A DHT aware client just connects to other DHT clients and these again other clients

[CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

2007-12-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:37 PM -0500 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: file:///usr/share/doc/bittorrent-4.4.0/TRACKERLESS.txt Looks like it might be the ticket. Seems to be supporting what y'all called DHT. It says it will not mess with tracked downloads. It suppor