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WhiteSpade
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Bittorrent Tracker [Solved] |
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Ok, so I'm sure I'm missing something very obvious here. I'm setting up a torrent tracker for my workplace for the distribution of system images to hundreds of machines. I've followed the (limited) directions here and things aren't quite working.
I just want to know what I'm doing wrong. I installed the bittorrent package | Code: | | emerge -va bittorrent |
and I already have apache installed. I edited my config file to this
| Code: | # /etc/conf.d/bittorrent-tracker: config file for /etc/init.d/bittorrent-tracker
# Change this to this to the port you would like to connect to for the tracker.
# It is accessible at http://localhost:PORT/ from any web browser.
PORT=8082
# where to store recent downloader info
DFILE=/usr/share/bittorrent/tracker.dfile
##Make sure you have a place where your torrents are!
ALLOWED_DIR=/var/www/localhost/htdocs/announce
# Connection logs are sent to stdout by default, so they should be sent to a
# file when using this script.
LOGFILE=/var/log/bttrack.log |
and I have the bittorrent-tracker running
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/bittorrent-tracker start |
I am making a test torrent and I run
| Code: | | createtorrent -a http://schnazzy.library.uiuc.edu -p 8082 stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 stage3.torrent |
I then copied the torrent to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/announce
I am running a client, it reads the torrent just fine, except when it attempts to connect to the tracker all I get is | Quote: | | No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. |
I know the firewall is not an issue with the server and the client can use torrents for other servers just fine. Does anyone have any insight into what I am doing wrong?
---Alex
Last edited by WhiteSpade on Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:05 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Knieper
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe opentracker works? |
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WhiteSpade
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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It turned out that Apache needed to be configured correctly.
Adding "Listen 8082" to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and restarting Apache fixed it.
I also updated the wiki so that now it's at least somewhat accurate compared to before. If I have time I'll continue to work on it and expand it even more.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_A_Bittorrent_Tracker
I hope this information helps somebody else.
---Alex |
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xtz
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Joined: 29 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject: Torrent tracker software |
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| Does somebody know a software for building a torrent tracker, that's in portage? I couldn't find anything... |
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nixnut
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merged above post here. I think this is what you're looking for. If not try searching the forums for 'torrent tracker'
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