Carl Franklin

Carl,

Shareazaa is a non java and much better bittorrent client IMHO.

is it just me or is perseus.franklins.net having problems today??

aside from the links having a "//" in them I can't seem to get any action for perseus
other than a 500 error.

What were those config values for rss channels and filter?

How about putting out a 'DNR The Movie' torrent?

I am having the same problems with perseus.

Yeah, still no dice on the downloads.

I don't know what the server used to do so it's hard to say whats wrong...

if I try the torrent I get a DNS / server not found error / page not availible

at one time I got a 500 internal error.

now I just get the not-found or DNS

Works for me outside the network. Try flushing your local DNS cache:

ipconfig /flushdns

Tried flushing, no joy.

What's the ip address?

perseus.franklins.net is 69.183.18.181
It changed recently from 69.24.42.81

Well, that works, thanks.

It works NOW!!!! Yeah!!!!

PS: my DNS had the new address yesterday so that was not it.

at least I don't think it was

I use www.dnsstuff.com and www.dnsreport.com by the way to check for common DNS things.

very good site for doing all kinds of lookups and stuff.

the dnsreport will tell you if any of the settings are not in-spec with the RFC's about DNS and Mail.

Carl: back to your topic of "Bit Torrent"

as I understand it Bt works best when there are known "seeder" sites that have the content and "trackers" that have pointers to the users who have the content and will feed the torrent to make it fast.

has any thought gone into that part of the whole torrent and podcast thing?

for example I have a web server that I run and I would be glad to allocate a fixed storage for an Archive of at least some of the DNR / Mondays files to help start the sharing.

I have been interested in this but did not want to host the "Warez" torrents as I am a Dev and feel thats not right.

Please let me know, you have my email address in your email or post a message here and we can take the details to the next step.

Denny

Hey, guys. Do any of you know where I can start learning about or asking for a .NET API for BitTorrent? I know nothing about it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/csharpbt/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bittorrentdotne/

Denny,

All we really need is a loose-knit group of bt clients with decent bandwidth, but not necessarily gigundo bandwidth, to consume the podcast feeds and accept incoming connections. Assuming every client hits the bt tracker at more or less the same time, the net effect will be a faster download for all. The key lies in the configuration of the client. We at franklins.net will allocate a certain amount of bandwidth (like about 8 Megabits) to the initial seed, and also run the tracker. If our listeners will share a little of their bandwidth on Monday mornings, it will work, and will only get faster as more people participate.

Ugh! I am loathe to report that I won't be tempting you all into my lair because I have found a ready-made, .NET based podcasting client with integrated bittorrent. It's called Nimiq, http://nimiq.nl/.

Ever heard of it? Anything you guys don't like about it?

I installed a version before they had a bt client. I'm checking it out now.

I'm trying Nimiq out now and it doesn't seem to be making much progress while downloading the torrent feed you guys used in the tutorial, http://franklins.net/DotNetRocks_torrent.xml.

Carl,

Yes I know that we/you/us do not need a single huge pipe...

what I was thinking was that a lot of folks would not bother to open the ports and stay online in a way that would get the full power of bt going.

that if as you say we have a "Loose-knit group" it will kick it off.

so I am asking if you want to have a few folks each leave a bt running with some of the shows to form the "first level" of the torrent so that when say 300 folks start to grab a show we have pre-loaded a full copy on say 16 differnt servers around the net to keep them from intialy grabbing all your alloted bandwith.

one other thing related:

I often grab the windows media format to toss it on my Pocket PC to listen to.
but the torrent is just the mp3 format...
perhaps you could add a windows low-fi torrent for the pocket pc's?

How feasable would it be to have a browser plugin client for bit torrent? This would do two things:

1. Make it more accessible for anyone to download via bt.

2. Make it more accessible for anyone to download via bt.


The initial setup of bt (opening the right ports,etc) is not for the non-tech. Also this alone might bring TOO much attention to bt (remember kaaza? and napster). Too much attention brings someone who wants to ruin it for us. What do you think?