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Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Rockets2K, Nov 7, 2004.

  1. Stack24

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    Yes very Lucky indeed...can't forget that day for a while =)
     
  2. Stack24

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    Thank you very much
     
  3. Lionheart

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    Man,I hope the server gets going again soon. I wanna see the Sac game.
     
  4. Stack24

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    I am sharing it right now actually people are downloading from me as we speak
     
  5. shawn786

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    Can u shaire it w/ me ;)
     
  6. Stack24

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    Try this link i made my frist torrent i want to see if it works.

    www.livesportscafe.com/rockets.torrent


    EDIT - I think i got everything working so this link should work

    Someone please test it and tell me if it is wokring for them. Thanks

    If anyone could help i would appreciate it.

    I made the torrent with my tracker as my IP and Port, (did that automatically) got the files made the torrent and uploaded to my server. I have Azerus open and one person tried it and it says unauthorized Torrent...any help would be greatly appreciated to get me on my way with figuring out how to make torrents.

    Thanks
     
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  7. saintja2

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    I have tried many programs ( original BitTorrent, Comet, Azureus, shadows experimental etc.) and what I have so far liked the best is ABC.

    It is very reliable, faster than any of the others I've tried and nice and easy to use.

    http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/ is the link, try it and i think you won't be disappointed.

    If you are using Firefox as your web browser (and you should), just click the link of the torrent and it asks you what you want to open it with. Choose ABC and from then on it is the default application for torrents. Very easy.
     
  8. corbe

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    oh popo, nothings working, no tinyurl and the above link, I will give someone my nempho, ex girlfriends phone number if they can provide me a link.
     
  9. Stack24

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    i can do a direct link if anyone wants that and has a messenger service..i turned off my azueres cause everyone said they couldn't connect to it for some reason.
     
  10. lavarock

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    The tracker is down...
     
  11. The_Yoyo

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    any idea when it'll be back up I have 94% of the kings game i was soo looking forward to watching it tonight when I got back till i saw the error on the BT :(
     
  12. m_cable

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    The tracker is down, but a couple of minutes ago I started seeding the Raptors game to somebody again. So maybe everything else will kick in soon.
     
  13. Stack24

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    Does anyone know a site where it will tell me how to setup a torrent and my o wn tracker...i read the help in my azures and it doesn't work for people..i opened a port on my router that the program asks for and it has a tracker number and everything but for some reason it's giving people erros when i want to send it..i guess i should just use trackers like everyone else uses huh?
     
  14. The_Yoyo

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    try seeding the kings game i just need about 35mb more i try connected now and still get the same error
     
  15. Stack24

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    i have been seeding it all day. I just turned it off right now cuase i need the bandwith....had a 4 to 1 share ratio when i turned it off...i will put mineback up later.
     
  16. m_cable

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    I am trying to seed it. Both the Raptor and King game has been going for me all day long. I just so happens that the Raptor game started kicking in a little bit just now.
     
  17. patlabor1

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    Stack, this should help, from the guy that invented BT.

    Setting up tracker on your own server is a bit tricky.
    Read the Faq on that it will clarify things.
    If your uncomfortable with setting up on your own server go to a BB BT forum and use their trackers.

    BTW what version of the game do you have, Is it the local Houston one?
    I already saw the game but wanted to hear what all the fuss is about,
    the new PP guy, people say he Talks Funnay. lol


    http://dessent.net/btfaq/#seeding



    How do I run a tracker?
    There are several options for running a tracker, as explained below. However before going to the trouble of installing and running your own tracker, you should first consider whether you actually need to run a tracker in the first place. There are many public BitTorrent trackers out there at the moment, see the links section for a good list. Unless you have some compelling reason why you want to run your own tracker, it's probably best to use someone else's. Hosting a tracker on a workstation-type machine with a dynamic IP address is possible but can be very tricky. In short, if you're not sure whether you need to run a tracker or not, then you don't need to.

    Before starting on your tracker, make sure you've read and understand the section on making and uploading a torrent, especially the part about the need for the --ip parameter for seeding machines on the same side of a NAT gateway as the tracker.

    Below are the common ways to run a tracker:

    Run the Python tracker. This is relatively straightforward:


    Install Python if you don't already have it on your system. Windows users should follow this link to download the Python 2.2.3 installer from python.org. If you use Linux (or BSD, OS X) you will want to consult your distribution's package management system. There are some details on this in the section above.
    Get the Python source code of BitTorrent. Note: A lot of changes have been made to the source since 3.2.1 was released, I strongly recommend that you get the latest sources from CVS if you want to run the tracker. To check out the source from CVS, issue the following command, assuming that you have a CVS client installed:

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bittorrent co BitTorrent

    This will create a BitTorrent directory under the current working directory. Note: Sourceforge's CVS server has been very flaky recently, presumably due to overload. If you find that you cannot get the above command to work, i.e. you get "Connection reset by peer" or some sort of timeout error, you can try this alternative server:

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs-pserver.sourceforge.net:80/cvsroot/bittorrent co BitTorrent

    If you need help installing a CVS client on your system, consult the Sourceforge documentation for Windows users here as well as the general CVS documentation here. Note that you can also access the sources through WebCVS.
    Page through the README.txt file for general instructions on how the tracker works. Essentially, you change to the directory that contains the bttrack.py file and issue a command such as:

    python bttrack.py --port 6969 --dfile dstate --logfile tracker.log

    Note that if this command is successful you won't see anything on the screen at all -- the tracker will remain open until you kill it, so you may want to put the command in a batch file for easy startup. To check your tracker's operation, connect to the machine running the tracker, i.e. by loading "http://machine-name:6969/" into your browser. If successfull you should see a status page in your browser.

    Your tracker's announce URL will be "http://machine-name:6969/announce". This is what should be entered in the appropriate field when creating a .torrent for your tracker.


    You should review the command line parameters and make any changes as appropriate. Note that the "--logfile" parameter is new in CVS and not present in 3.2.1. If you must use the 3.2.1 sources, you will want to redirect the log messages on stdout to a file, e.g. by appending ">> tracker.log" to your command line. You can also run "python bttrack.py to get a list of command line parameters. Some parameters that might be of interest are:


    --nat_check n
    If 1 (default), don't allow users behind NAT gateways use the tracker. You probably want to set this to 0 for a general-access site.
    --allowed_dir dir
    Use this to restrict the files which your tracker will track. This parameter specifies a directory name, and it will only track torrents that exist in this directory. If this parameter is present you must somehow place the .torrent file in the specified directory before the tracker will accept it.
    --show_names n
    If set to 1, the tracker will show filenames of torrents that it knows about in its allowed_dir, instead of just showing info_hash's on its status page.
    See the command line section of the FAQ for a complete list of command line parameters.

    As an alternative to the Python tracker, you can try BNBT which is a tracker written in C++. It is slightly easier to install since it comes with precompiled binaries for Windows, and is relatively easy to build with g++ under Linux/OS X. BNBT has more advanced stats-pages, but its configuration is very similar to the Python tracker. Refer to the home page for downloads and manuals.
    You can also try the TrackPack, which combined BNBT with an easy to use installer for Windows. With this combination you can have a tracker up and running very quickly. You can read more about the TrackPak and how to use it at Trinity's site and the forums at Filesoup.com.
    If you have a web server capable of PHP and MySQL, there are a couple of free (GPL) tracker implementations. One is PHPBTTracker, another is bytemonsoon.com. Both of these solutions run integrate the tracker with the web server, and offer quite extensive stats. Refer to the PHP source for installation details.
    How do I configure a web server for .torrent files?
    You must associate files ending in .torrent with the Content-Type application/x-bittorrent. For Apache, you should add the line:

    AddType application/x-bittorrent .torrent

    to your httpd.conf configuration file. If you cannot modify the main httpd.conf file (such as in the case of a shared or virtual hosting scenario), you can also put the above AddType directive in a .htaccess file. This presumes that the server's administrator has enabled this ability with the AllowOverride FileInfo directive. Also note that settings in a .htaccess file only apply to the directory containing the file, so make sure this is the directory that will contain the .torrent files.

    Alternatively, you can add the line:

    application/x-bittorrent .torrent

    to your mime.types file, which is used if the TypesConfig directive is present in httpd.conf.

    To add MIME types with Microsoft's IIS web server:

    Right-click the Web site and choose Properties.
    Select the HTTP Headers tab.
    In the MIME Map box, click File Types, and then click New Type.
    Enter the extension ".torrent" and the MIME type "application/x-bittorrent" in the appropriate boxes.
    Select OK to close all the dialogs.
    If you cannot configure the application/x-bittorrent type, you could place the .torrent files in an archive (.zip, .rar, etc.) and serve that instead. Doing so will forfeit the ability to click on a torrent link and automatically launch the BitTorrent client, however. The user must manually unpack the .torrent file and then launch it to start the transfer.
     
  18. Rockets2K

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    This is the scoop....

    The drive in the server that the trackers are hosted at died..the webhosts are supposed to be getting it back online ASAP...but I havent been given a estimated time when it will be back online.

    There isnt a lot I can do about it at this point, but I can guarantee that the trackers for the 4 games up to this point will still be available when the server comes back online.

    sorry for the inconvienance...look at it this way...hopefully this will be the only time this happens this year. The server has been very reliable up till now.

    keep checking back in this thread...as soon as it goes back up..I will post notification.

    btw...connecting at this point is useless...even if you have a partial file downloaded already...without the tracker to point your client to other peers/seeds...you will never connect.

    I have had all 4 seeding all day...but I only have a couple of ppl hitting the Raptors game....no connections on any of the others.
     
  19. m_cable

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    But if they have their clients running, wouldn't they start connecting when the tracker gets back online. So they turn on the torrent, go to sleep and cross fingers maybe it'll be done when they wake up in the morning.
     
  20. Rockets2K

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    correct.....the way to do this is to leave the client running, it will attempt to update the tracker data periodically....and at such time as the tracker comes back online, it will connect automatically and restart the download from where it stopped.
     

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