DIY torrent tracker
p2pnet.net News:- Uploading torrent files to a tracker is no big deal, but you have to generate torrents for each file and then run a tracker and a seeder
Would it not be easier if you could simply drag and drop them into a shared folder? Yeh?
Then meet Snakebite, a stand-alone BitTorrent server that works on both Windows and Linux.
It, “provides all of the power of BitTorrent with the ease of use of a webserver,” says its ACTLab TV site. “Simply install snakebite, launch it, and drop files in the correct folder. They are then shared over BitTorrent with no additional effort. Additionally, snakebite automatically generates a user-customizable page with links to all of your torrents. That way you can just point people to your links page and they can download anything that you have.”
Even cooler, it goes on, if you enter a username and password into the Snakebite config file, it’ll automatically create an account for you on the ACTLab TV (sponsors of snakebite) redirect servers.
“Then you have an easy to remember link to paste to your friends, even if your IP address changes.”
How do it do what it do?
“Snakebite is a branch of the mainline BitTorrent codebase and merges all of the applications in the BitTorrent suite into a stand-alone server,” says the site. “For each file to be served, Snakebite automatically generates a tracker, a seeder and a .torrent file using a configurable watch folder mechanism, and then announces the new downloadable file to the Internet.
But there’s a BUT.
Obviously, this isn’t an application for anyone who’s thinking about sharing anything less than squeaky clean files.
Meanwhile, Snakebite was written by Google Summer of Code student Evan Wilson under the mentorship of hacker genius and rollerskate limbo champion Brandon Wiley.
Download it here.
(Thanks, Danny)
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