Elliott, I agree that the single tracker is a single point of failure, it pretty much dooms the idea of a failover system without using custom networking hardware. I spent some time working on an implementation that allowed multiple trackers to stay in sync, but with the resistance from Bram the idea was never going far. The idea was to have a non-standard extension which offered a tracker list. This would maintain backward compatibility, and hopefully gain enough momentum for it to become a de-facto standard. An interview with Bram where he states he doesn't think backup trackers are worth it is at; http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=237 The conversation has cropped up on the technical mailing list (at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitTorrent_help/ - You need to subscribe to see the archive). Regards, Al. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliott Wilcoxon" <elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Discussions about configuration tool development" <fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 9:22 PM Subject: Re: BitTorrent based update mechanism > However, if BT is going to be used as an update protocol in this manner, > we need such a mechanism to help the reliability of the service. I am > uncertain what, if any, plans have been made towards implementing this, > but I would expect that any updating mechanism would implement their own > BT client, so that they would be in control of how things work entirely, > and as such, they would be able to use any features that fit their needs. > > Elliott Wilcoxon > > P.S. Do you have a link to some of the multi-tracker discussions that > Bram took part in? I'd like to take a read. > > Al Sutton wrote: > > I followed the discussions relating got multi-tracker capabilities and Bram > > (The author of the offical client) was very anti-it, so again it's unlikley > > it'll be supported by all clients. > > > > I'll definatley put a note in for v2 of the paper though. > > > > Regards, > > > > AL. > > > -- > Fedora-config-list mailing list > Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list > > >