RE: Support for "announce-list"

 
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Attached is a copy of the Multitracker Spec document from the
BitTornado site (and source package).

The announce-list defined from that spec is a list of lists.
Each list is tried in order.
The trackers in each list are randomized on load, tried in that
randomized order, and ALL cycling of trackers is stopped when a
working tracker is found, and that working tracker is moved to the
front of its list for the next cycle.
It starts from the first list every announce cycle.

- -----From the site-----
The first tracker probed when the torrent starts is the "canonical"
tracker. That is, the tracker used before supporting the
"announce-list".
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Not recommended, especially if that tracker is WAY down in the list
of lists (like 10 tiers down). Most of the time, tracker
administrators put this sort of announce-list in to avoid using the
default tracker if at all possible.

- -----From the site-----
If that tracker fails, we shuffle the tracker list in "announce-list"
and try every tracker in it, looking for anyone alive.

If all trackers are unavailable, we keep trying all of them, just
like the standard client.
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That's all well and good, but if there's a specific order in which
the tracker administrators wanted their trackers accessed you just
ignored it. You also didn't specify how many of the list to try at a
time. If it tries more than one in a tier at a time, it is abusive
and should not be used.



- -----Original Message-----
From: Jesus Cea Avion [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BitTorrent] Support for "announce-list"


> It's at http://bittornado.com/
> But tha site isn't available at the moment.

/me patient.

What problem do you see in my approach?.

> Hmm, please ask your usual trackers to support UDP too. ;->

So many things to do, so little time to burn... :)

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               MULTITRACKER METADATA ENTRY SPECIFICATION
               =========================================

This specification is for John Hoffman's proposed extension to the
BitTorrent metadata format.  This extension is not official as of this
writing.


* "announce-list"

In addition to the standard "announce" key, in the main area of the
metadata file and not part of the "info" section, will be a new key,
"announce-list".  This key will refer to a list of lists of URLs, and
will contain a list of tiers of announces.  If the client is compatible
with the multitracker specification, and if the "announce-list" key is
present, the client will ignore the "announce" key and only use the
URLs in "announce-list".


* order of processing

The tiers of announces will be processed sequentially; all URLs in each
tier must be checked before the client goes on to the next tier.  URLs
within each tier will be processed in a randomly chosen order; in other
words, the list will be shuffled when first read, and then parsed in
order.  In addition, if a connection with a tracker is successful, it
will be moved to the front of the tier.


* examples.

d['announce-list'] = [ [tracker1], [backup1], [backup2] ]
  On each announce, first try tracker1, then if that cannot be reached,
  try backup1 and backup2 respectively.  On the next announce, repeat
  in the same order.  This is meant for when the trackers are standard
  and can not share information.

d['announce-list'] = [[ tracker1, tracker2, tracker3 ]]
  First, shuffle the list.  (For argument's sake, we'll say the list
  has already been shuffled.)  Then, if tracker1 cannot be reached, try
  tracker2.  If tracker2 can be reached, the list is now:
  tracker2,tracker1,tracker3.  From then on, this will be the order the
  client tries.  If later neither tracker2 nor tracker1 can be reached,
  but tracker3 responds, then the list will be changed to:
  tracker3,tracker2,tracker1, and will be tried in that order in the
  future.  This form is meant for trackers which can trade peer
  information and will cause the clients to help balance the load
  between the trackers.

d['announce-list'] = [ [ tracker1, tracker2 ], [backup1] ]
  The first tier, consisting of tracker1 and tracker2, is shuffled.
  Both trackers 1 and 2 will be tried on each announce (though perhaps
  in varying order) before the client tries to reach backup1.

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