torrent tracker software
February 8, 2008
Dear LazyWeb,
It seems like all the torrent tracker software is slowly dissolving:
bittorrent: 5.2.0 is the last open source version. The new versions are closed and therefore full of doom. If anyone has forked the last open version and is working on it I’d love to know that, too.
ctorrent: not obviously being maintained and not obviously designed to be a standalone tracker
osprey: not been updated in quite some while. Looks cool, developed by cool people. Still – last updated in 2006 fills me with dread
So what torrent trackers are all the cool kids using these days?
thanks
February 8, 2008 at 5:50 am
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February 8, 2008 at 8:15 am
If you need a high-performance tracker with minimal footprint, then Opentracker (http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/) might be worth considering.
February 8, 2008 at 11:10 am
I use an Apache module called
mod_bt. Fits in nicely with your existing Apache config, and not heavyweight at all.Installable on Debian within seconds by installing the package "
libapache2-mod-bt"Have fun.
February 11, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I run at 2 PCs Azureues http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ yes it is java but tracker works I am looking for lightweight replacement.
February 12, 2008 at 6:12 am
I’d say that the best *free* tracker I’ve found by far is rtorrent (libtorrent comes along too). This tool is not only functional, but snazzy. Its a text based tracker, fully configurable and easy to manage.
Here’s the website, and I believe its available these days in the fedora repo.
Here are some tutorials I wrote a while back:
http://fedora-tutorials.com/2007/05/27/rtorrent-an-introduction/
http://fedora-tutorials.com/2007/06/09/rtorrent-the-options/
Here’s the actual site itself as well.
URL – http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki
Cheers,
Clint
May 21, 2008 at 7:19 pm
[...] Amen, brother. [...]
June 23, 2008 at 9:38 am
the really cool kids probably programm their own tracker
June 24, 2008 at 2:53 pm
very nice your blog
April 22, 2009 at 11:58 pm
>bittorrent: 5.2.0 is the last open source version. The new versions are closed
No, you can still download open-source versions from bittorrent.com–just look for a link to the Linux, source code, and older versions. I just downloaded v.5.2.2.