Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE

[microchip8]

The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.

Novell made it on TorrentFreak

Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE | TorrentFreak

microchip8 wrote:

>
>> The Pirate BayÂ’s tracker closure has spurred
several discussions
>> about DHT, BitTorrentÂ’s fallback technology
for when central trackers
>> are unavailable. According to some, DHT has
some problems of its own.
>> Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE
with the BitTorrent
>> client Transmission, but not before stripping
DHT support.
>
> Novell made it on TorrentFreak
>
> 'Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from
openSUSE | TorrentFreak'
> (http://tinyurl.com/yk9vmst)
>
>
old news as Ktorrent has always had dht support
stripped in openSuse, which is why Packman
provides their own rpm
--
openSuse 11.32 x64bit, KDE4.3.3, Opera weekly

[Chrysantine]

Sent mail to the TorrentFreak guy, and a nice one this time ;-)

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by google01103

microchip8 wrote:

>
>> The Pirate BayÂ’s tracker closure has spurred
several discussions
>> about DHT, BitTorrentÂ’s fallback technology
for when central trackers
>> are unavailable. According to some, DHT has
some problems of its own.
>> Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE
with the BitTorrent
>> client Transmission, but not before stripping
DHT support.
>
> Novell made it on TorrentFreak
>
> 'Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from
openSUSE | TorrentFreak'
> (Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE | TorrentFreak)
>
>
old news as Ktorrent has always had dht support
stripped in openSuse, which is why Packman
provides their own rpm
--
openSuse 11.32 x64bit, KDE4.3.3, Opera weekly

Not really the point if it's old or new. The point, which you missed, is that Novell made it to TorrentFreak

[Chrysantine]

Originally Posted by microchip8

Not really the point if it's old or new. The point, which you missed, is that Novell made it to TorrentFreak

Why am I not surprised it was in a 'negative light', I wonder if Boy and his cohorts had something to do with it.

Mental note to self; next time when sending mail to people, make sure you aren't using J's hotmail account because he's too thick to not save user/pass and close the browser.

[microchip8]

Boy has his hands in virtually everything Novell - I think there's love between these two . He prolly lobbied on Novell's part, on the negative side. Something he accuses others of doing, yet he does it too

Dunno who's "J" .....

[Chrysantine]

Originally Posted by microchip8

Dunno who's "J" .....

He's the guy who doesn't let me sit on the sofa and plays FiFA every evening.

[robopensuse]

Turning off DHT doesn't make much difference though, as you can enable PEX support (assuming there is a tracker to get things started). I got attracted to Torrentfreak to, and there's an explanation of how Transmission WILL have DHT enabled but with one of those pop ups "you will be good, won't you?" to agree to.

[TaraIkeda]

This is a non issue for me as I usually use some other BT client on linux, I hate transmission.

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by Chrysantine

He's the guy who doesn't let me sit on the sofa and plays FiFA every evening.

what? and you allow him to command you around? Get up... show him who's the man... errr girl