Re: [tdf-mirrors] prevent mirror from being added as webseed in torrents

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:54:49 +0200
"Dr. Peter Pöml" <poeml@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi Peter,

I hope it's ok if i just say Peter and not Dr. Pöml ?

> I see. 
>
> Maybe it could be useful to report this as a bug to Transmission development (which looks like an 
> open source project, at first glance). The behaviour should be improved, I guess.

That could / should be done but im afraid thats not the end of the
story. Transmission ist just one of the clients with such behavior. I
can compile a list if you want.

In the last 3 weeks these clients hit my mirror with the following
numbers:  

203813 hits resulting in 74.05 GB Traffic.

> > So what is needed is a way to configure mirrors to be excluded from
> > being added to the url-list. Or when that is too much effort disabling
> > of the webseeds altogether.
>
> Particular mirrors? Which ones do you think should be excluded?

tdf.key-server.de

> I don't see many requests for torrents made by Transmission clients on our server: only about 5 
> per day. Maybe it's not that serious? Who disliked this behaviour?

I think thats me.

> Transmission clients seem to identify by their HTTP user agent header, so yes, in the end it 
> should be practical to return webseed-free torrents to them.

Of course that should be possible but there are different clients as
mentioned above and i also don't support torrent at all. I looked into
that and it seems that torrent is not intended to be a daemon on linux
systems and therefore isn't very well supported at all.

Have a nice WE.

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