Re: Beta5 now Available

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>
>> No you can not, but the tracker isn't very resource intesive from my
>> past experience.  I can host it if needed.
>
>
> It wasn't that that I was thinking of ... just wondering if there was
> some way of having it redundant, instead of centralized ... nice thing
> about ftp mirrors, we have about 60 of them, so if one goes down, it
> doesn't really affect anything ... from what everyone is saying, if
> the tracker goes down, it affects everything ... seems odd to have
> "new technology" still having single points of failure :(


O.k. I know nothing of bittorrent but couldn't we just have to machines
that are identically configured that have a round robin DNS thing going on?

That would help with load.

If the machines were on the same network we could even heartbeat or
service check between them.

J



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>  > > Gavin >
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>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gaetano Mendola wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ...so the very first client is the real server
>>>>> that must be run 24/24.
>>>>>
>>>> I don't think this is correct. You need a tracker for downloaders
>>>> to be able to find each other but no client is more important than
>>>> the others.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> can there be multiple trackers?  for instance, if we ran
>>> bt.postgresql.org on two different servers, could they both run
>>> trackers at the same time?
>>>
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