Cool, Matt!

[Jeremy Faulkner]

Julian Stacey wrote:
> Reference:
> 
>>From:		Wille Harald <harald.wille at students.jku.at> 
>>Date:		Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:00:43 +0200 
>>Message-id:	<20050408130043.GA3703 at heim-034-71.raab-heim.uni-linz.ac.at> 
> 
> 
> Wille Harald wrote:
> 
>>>Has anyone tried torrent down loading ? & been succesful ?
>>>Mine was stuck at 2 meg last 5 hours so I killed it - Again !
>>
>>I succesfully downloaded it using ctorrent.
>>Just startet seeding for other 72 hours.
>>Good luck - again :) 
> 
> 
> Thanks.  I started again, & from a 2nd different site too.  (to
> test in case throttled at 1st site) Crawling slow at both sites.
> I ran it with a simple:
> 	ctorrent techtv-freebsd_clusters.avi.torrent
> & got this
> 	META INFO
> 	Announce: http://www.owntracker.com/pqrt/announce.php
> 	Create On: Tue Apr  5 20:39:23 2005
> 	Piece length: 262144
> 	FILES INFO
> 	<1>  techtv-freebsd_clusters.avi [176344994]
> 	Total: 168 MB
> 	Check exist: 672/673 Complete
> 	Already/Total: 9/673
> 	Listen on: 2706
> 	| 4,[9/673/673],0,0 | 0,0  E:0
> I found this explains the above
> 	http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/?action=faq&id=7
> Somewhere I read of leach mode penalisation,
> I havent turned on anything to enable leach mode though.
> 
> If your .torrent file is still handy, could you md5 it please, &
> if it's not same as mine mail me a copy please ? Maybe mine is corrupted ?
>   MD5 (techtv-freebsd_clusters.avi.torrent) = a1a4e1ba9e18e527555adad8b198c498
> 
> -
> Julian Stacey        Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich       http://berklix.com
> Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam).  Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.

ctorrent is a buggy unmaintained application and should probably be 
removed from ports. I would suggest using the python bittorrent client.

-- 
Jeremy Faulkner	<gldisater at gto.net>