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

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 13:21:45 +0200
"Dr. Peter Pöml" <poeml@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi Peter,

> Of course. Sorry about the stupid header!

Never mind :-)

> > In the last 3 weeks these clients hit my mirror with the following
> > numbers:  
> >
> > 203813 hits resulting in 74.05 GB Traffic.
>
> Hm, I'd think that this is not too bad, but of course that is subjective. Generating logs and 
> adding some overhead. At least the logs will compress well ;)

You're right, i didn't really care about the load or
anything. I would have never noticed it if there weren't the big
log files. I Just thought that the traffic could be spend better in the
future, thats why i mentioned it. Im not in hardware trouble or
anything because of that :-)

> I assume other mirrors would be affected in the same way, but might not have noticed.

Definitely.

> This might be the first deployment of web seeds in this order of magnitude. So it might be a new 
> situation for both mirrors as well as Torrent client developers.

Im pretty certain.

> > 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.
>
> Okay. I have to say, at the moment, we don't have a way to disable single mirrors from being 
> listed in web seeds, so I can't disable this right now for you. I can look into it later.

Ok, i can really live with it. Just want to say something so that
someday it can be taken care of.

> Thanks for your feedback!

Thanks for the reply and the consideration of a software change just
because a lonely guy said so ;-)

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen / yours sincerely

Sebastian Urbach

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