Re: Questions from content distributor POV
Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
John Reuning wrote:
> So, on to my questions:
>
> - The web seed feature is interesting for permanent seeding, but not all
> clients support it. How feasible is a portal application whose contact
> information could be given by the tracker to clients if no complete
> copies of the content exist among the peers?
Why not just run a BT client on the server instead of webseeding?
>
> - How useful would inter-tracker peer sharing be for creating bittorrent
> tracker clusters for enormous swarms? Some have said that client
> communication with 30-100 peers is best. But if the tracker had access
> to several thousand peers for a torrent, could it better allocate a
> seed/leecher combination to the clients?
What's your definition of enormous swarms?
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