[105348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Jun 18 10:39:06 2008
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:42:22 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
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 Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> 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.
<random type="idea from tonight">
If only there was a way for a SP to run a BitTorrent type service for
their clients, subscribing the BT server(s) to known-good (ie, not warez-y)
torrents pre-seeded from trusted sources and then leaving it the hell
alone and not having to continuously dump specific torrent files into
it.
</random>
Hm!
Adrian
