I've identified and fixed the issues with the BitTorrent trackers on the servers, and now the J-Pilot tracker is up and running again. The upstream BitTorrent and BitTornado sources have been patched with my fix so the tracker should no longer spontaneously crash as before. To get a tarball of the torrents to help seed releases, just point your browser to the following file: http://downloads.jpilot.org/jpilot-torrents-04182007.tar.bz2 Unpack it into an empty directory and seed with your favorite client. If you're interested in helping seed pilot-link or Plucker's releases, their tarball-o-torrents can be found here: http://downloads.plkr.org/plucker-torrents-04182007.tar.bz2 http://downloads.pilot-link.org/pilot-link-torrents-04182007.tar.bz2 To see the status of the tracker (including all downloads, seeds and peers), just point your browser to the following URL: http://torrents.jpilot.org:8002/ Every seed and peer helps, and contrary to the current media spin on the matter, BitTorrent is secure, and does not "open your machine up to the Internet", or to malware or anything of the sort.. unless you specifically tell it to do so (and that certainly is not the default behavior). I've written a BitTorrent mini-FAQ several years ago when I deployed BitTorrent for our releases of Plucker, which you can read here, if you're interested in learning more about how we use it, how it works and so on: http://www.plkr.org/plkr-bt-minifaq.html Help out if you can, it can only help everyone else... -- David A. Desrosiers - desrod at gnu-designs.com "There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Use in that order. Starting now." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/attachments/20070418/7b77f05a/attachment.pgp
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