Stephen Frost wrote:
>* Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@postgresql.org) wrote:
>
>
>>we're not talking load issues this time ... the way I understand it,
>>bittorrent has a 'tracker' process that only one can be running on the "BT
>>Distributed Network" at once ... so, if the bt "central server" goes down,
>>the whole bt network goes down with it ...
>>
>>At least, this is my understanding, someone please correct me if I'm wrong
>>...
>>
>>
>
>I *think*, not 100% sure, but I believe you could have multiple
>trackers, hosted by different systems, but the problem is that you'll
>split your clients between them and they won't talk to each other even
>though they potentially could. Also, if one of the trackers went down
>the clients using it would also go down (or at least, the stream from
>that tracker would).
>
>
A well organized Bittorrent FAQ that answers most questions regarding
trackers etc. can be found at:
http://www.filesoup.com/faq/index.php?sid=281125&aktion=anzeigen
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
