[105328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Tue Jun 17 14:14:40 2008
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:14:16 -0500
From: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520806171100s28de94f8h80cff4a3b4982257@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 6/17/08, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Netfortius <netfortius@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anybody used (and been successful at) a bit-torrent-like agent for
> fast
> > distribution of LEGAL software (install programs of large-DVD size),
> across
> > multiple sites, all over the globe, with bad WAN connectivity?
<snip>
most of the larger free-nix's do BT downloads on release day(s).
> Revision3 distributes their content via BT. There were rumors of
> Disney and Apple moving to BT models for their content distribution at
> one point as well.
>
<snip>
I believe World of Warcraft uses Bittorrent to push out updates as well
(Steam may, haven't checked, would make sense though). Something we've been
working with for a client is using Amazon's S3 service to host the tracker,
as S3 will natively handle serving it (both the content and the tracker, you
simply need to append ?torrent to the S3 request).
HTH,
-brandon
