Hi, On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, jdd wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
ftp server admins usually do not have experience with p2p clients, at least not during their job.
the problem may not be here
I know; it is not here, but "there" - at the p2p protocol designers. ;-))
So let me ask in my full naivity:
Can't "you" seed files which reside on "my" ftp server?
of course not
So we clearly need a better p2p protocol.
If not, we simply need a better p2p protocol - which does not design a future neglecting the presence.
nobody can do anything on your server (I hope this for you :-)
Of course you can. Just use port 21, 80 or 873, and I will do what you are telling me.
I think the main problem will not to lauch a BT server on the ftp server, that's easy, the problem is to convince the admin that this will not give him problems, security, bandwith... and this I can't say. so I understand well that such data must be done on a high level (the info must come from a trusted professional source)
but if this can make his life simpler, I could work :-)
Just sing me the HOWTO, but in my melody please... What to do to help? Maybe I will do it if it is no http, php, perl or python schnickschnack. Offering files through ports. I bet they can't do it this simple. And I bet even further: if they think they can do it this simple, they do not realize that they are wasting the server's memory and CPU. So I guess it is as I already had stated: "we simply need a better p2p protocol". Read this as "born dead" before you start to answer. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)