On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:04:46AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 08 mar 12, 18:56:19, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm a bit of a novice, so my terminology may be off. But by "public" I > > mean a torrent that I upload to any public tracker, like > > thepiratebay or something. Anyone could download my torrent, not that they > > would know to look for it. > > You don't need a public tracker, you can either set up your own tracker > or just use DHT. > For those following along, I've had some success testing on my LAN.
Set up a tracker on machine1: bttrack --port 6969 --dfile dstate --logfile bttrack.log Create a torrent and reference the above tracker. I did it both with transmission-gtk and the following command line: btmakemetafile http://machine1:6969/announce somefile or btmakemetafile http://machine1:6969/announce somedirectory Seed the torrent with one machine, and download the torrent on another machine. I also had success downloading the torrent from the same user account that was seeding it, but using a different bittorrent client (and saving to a different directory). Some of the torrents take a long time to start downloading (like an hour or more). Some of them start right away. One torrent ran overnight and never started downloading. Then I paused and resumed it, and it started right up. Any ideas why this might happen? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120311180818.gc20...@aurora.owens.net
