[geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

Tue Apr 10 13:42:06 CDT 2007

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/04/10 Tue PM 12:08:46 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Debian 4.0 Bittorrent for DVD

>On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:45:20 -0500
>Phil Brutsche <phil at tux.obix.com> wrote:
>
>> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> > You also need a NAT box that can sense the random port and automatically
>> > create a redirect for it, or respond to something like UPnP requests.
>> >
>> > How do you handle that?
>> 
>> There exists a UPnP daemon that works with Linux and *BSD, Linux-IGD
>> (http://linux-igd.sf.net).
>
>Ah... somehow I thought UPnP was code for P2P clients to talk to standard
>routing software.
>
>Nevermind.
> 
>> Apparently it's in pkgsrc as linuxigd-current.
>> 
>> Just be aware that UPnP is a security nightmare waiting to happen ;)
>> 
>> Personally I "port-forward" TCP port 6881 manually.
>
>Me too, and I think I'll continue doing that.

The torrent just ended - I swear the torrent for Disc 1 was reading 7-8 hours left for the last 18 hours, it was quite maddening...

Of course, after I started the download on my laptop (thinking it would just be a few hours) I remembered that this laptop only has a CD-RW/DVD drive, soI'll have to transfer the images to a desktop with a DVD burner to actually cut the DVDs...

<head slap>

Lionel