A different proposal for XO upgrade.

[C. Scott Ananian]

On 6/27/07, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:19 -0400, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> Kind of.  Last time I checked bittorrent just used a random guess to
> figure out who to try and get bits from.  i.e. you were just as likely
> to get your bits from india as you would from the guy on the next lan.

a) There are location-sensitive extensions to bittorrent.
b) If we used bittorrent, we'd use a primary torrent tracker on the
schoolserver, with a backup in cambridge (or using DHT).  That would
keep downloads local unless the schoolserver was down.
 --scott

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