No more torrents.....

[Chris Rees]

On 19 Dec 2012 09:47, "Volodymyr Kostyrko" <c.kworr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 19.12.2012 01:22, Peter Wemm:
>
>>> I would be very much be willing to assist with seeding if we make dht
>>> torrent files available from my nodes located in downtown Los Angeles
>>> for west-coast and APAC network presence.
>>>
>>> as an aside:
>>> I have been running libtorrent/rtorrent for a bit and it seems like a
>>> pretty decent platform for building on.  having said that - I am not a
>>> security researcher and would be keen to hear if libtorrent/rotrrent
>>> suffers from these similar issues?
>>
>>
>> Oh wait, I told a lie.  It wasn't py-bittornado we used.. it was
>> rtorrent.  Thanks for prompting that.
>>
>> I have no concerns with rtorrent except that it was a curses beastie.
>> It was something we had to manually start up after a machine reboot
>> until we did some evil scripts with screen.
>
>
> The ports contain at least two torrent clients that can daemonize:
transmission and btpd. At least first one surely knows about DHT.

Transmission definitely does, and it is built to be lightweight.

Would clusteradm be interested on that?

Chris