Re: Beta5 now Available

Stephen Frost wrote:

>* Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@postgresql.org) wrote:
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>>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 
>>...
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>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).
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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