Hi, On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Rajko M wrote:
Robert Schiele wrote:
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:35:01AM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
As we see, almost no server admins are doing this. The best way would be to enhance the p2p clients so that they can "speak" ftp or http and fetch some pieces via ftp or http protocol.
Well, some clients actually can do this.
Yes, we see that mirror admins typically don't do this but what exactly is the _reason_ that they don't run a seeder? For example why don't _you_ run one?
Torrent, according to their web site, is answer to overloaded central servers (FTP,HTTP). Even if there will be no security risks, than setting p2p seeder on FTP server is just against basic idea.
This sounds a little bit puristic. The spotted "server overload" phaenomenon is a matter with a duration of one day or even longer. Using ftp/http servers automatically ("programmed in") as initial seed could help a lot to get a p2p net running. Once there is enough "food" spreaded, the p2p contacts to ftp/http servers will reduce automatically.
Plus design details explained in Peter Czanik email.
Yes; but I'm not sure about the relevance in total. If a server has 1000 "regular" ftp/http sessions anyways, I guess it would not matter to have 200 additional sessions which request very small packets. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)