[SSL Observatory] Tracker for data files

Peter Eckersley pde at eff.org
Sat Nov 28 23:04:12 PST 2015


Yes; I believe we always had a lot of difficulty keeping that tracker
running, and it's now gone.  I'm not an expert at BitTorrent wrangling;
does anyone know if we can switch to magnet links that don't need a
tracker?

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The torrent files https://www.eff.org/observatory point to
> web4.eff.org as tracker, but that hostname doesn't seem to exist
> anymore.
> 
> I'm still (trying) to seed those files, but that obviously doesn't
> work to well if the tracker is down.  It seems that there are
> however still at least 5 people seeding it, there might be more if
> the tracker was actually still working.
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 

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