Re: Using multicast for security updates

[aliban <aliban@gmx.net>]

Geoff Crompton schrieb:

>Edward Faulkner wrote:
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>>Or you could just use bittorrent.  The server runs a tracker and
>>everyone cooperatively downloads chunks.  Same kind of idea, but it
>>doesn't require multicast support (which may or may not exist in
>>various networks).
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>When you say "The server runs a tracker", are you explaining bittorrent,
>or do the security.debian.org servers actually run a tracker at the moment?
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>How well does bittorrent work for smaller files? I was always under the
>(possibly mistaken) impression that it worked really well for iso sized
>images (and larger) because the size allowed plenty of time for the
>chunks to get distributed well through out the network.
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Should be highly available considering that every client would
probably need the "security updates" and then would/should
host them.

Whatever I doubt that many users want to host files for others...?