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Oddish
11-11-2005, 06:28 PM
Hi everyone!

Soon I'm going to need to spread a large file (3-4 GB) to a lot of people, and I thought bittorrent would be perfect, but setting up a complicated tracker script on our website seems a little overkill. Is there any other options? Are there any simple, stable and easy to install (on a Unix host) trackers out there?

Thanks in advance!
Oddish
11-11-2005, 06:39 PM
Btw, the best thing would be a tracker plugin for vBulletin 3.5. Is there such a plugin?
Vargas
11-11-2005, 07:23 PM
just create a torrent, and set the tracker to one of the following:


http://mongo56.org:3535/announce
http://bittorrent-support.com:2710/announce
http://tracker.prq.to/announce

then give the torrent to your people
oh and don't forget to seed it ;)
Oddish
11-11-2005, 07:32 PM
Well, you know, this is not something I wanna spread to the whole bittorrent community, but thanks for the suggestion. :)
Filliz
11-11-2005, 08:25 PM
BlogTorrent (http://www.blogtorrent.com/) maybe?
Vargas
11-11-2005, 09:01 PM
you don't get it, as long as you don't upload the torrent to any dump sites the only people in the swarm will be the people with a copy of the torrent.
Oddish
11-11-2005, 10:54 PM
Hmmm.. ok, now I get it. But that must be frowned upon by the people who run these trackers since we're stealing bandwidth. I guess it's negligeable. Thanks for the tips, and Filliz, I'll check out BlogTorrent.
tree_for
11-12-2005, 04:07 AM
u could try bitcomet tracker real simple
td4guy
11-12-2005, 10:08 AM
But that must be frowned upon by the people who run these trackers since we're stealing bandwidth.No, they're free public trackers.
Oddish
11-25-2005, 01:35 PM
just create a torrent, and set the tracker to one of the following:


http://mongo56.org:3535/announce
http://bittorrent-support.com:2710/announce
http://tracker.prq.to/announce

then give the torrent to your people
oh and don't forget to seed it ;)I just tried this, and all I get is "Connection error: timeout" from the trackers. I created a torrent in Azureus and put "http://tracker.prq.to/announce" as the announce url, but ... timeout. Maybe they don't allow people to use the tracker if the torrent isn't uploaded on their site?
Vargas
11-25-2005, 02:17 PM
never tried the second url, mondo and prg.to only rely every so often, and time out the other times
i noramally use the prg.to tracker
but you don't need to upload the torrent to these trackers, you just need to seed the torrent to activate them on the trackers