From 893e5ded0ed2f519e0e9f0af72bed008e6078155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Schottelius Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:47:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] project: +opentracker --- .../projects/ipv6-torrent-tracker/contents.lr | 26 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/u/projects/ipv6-torrent-tracker/contents.lr diff --git a/content/u/projects/ipv6-torrent-tracker/contents.lr b/content/u/projects/ipv6-torrent-tracker/contents.lr new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4649e3b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/u/projects/ipv6-torrent-tracker/contents.lr @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +title: IPv6 tracker +--- +subtitle: Make your Open Source torrent IPv6 reachable +--- +content: + +## Background + +Many Bittorrent trackers are currently not reachable from the IPv6 +world. So when you want to distribute Open Source Software via +torrent, it will be unreachable from IPv6 only networks. + +## tracker.datacenterlight.ch + +For this reason we have decided to supply an **IPv6 only**, **fully +open** bittorrent tracker in [Data Center Light](../data-center-light) +named **tracker.datacenterlight.ch**. + +## How to use it + +If you want to create a new torrent that uses this tracker, you can do +so by using **mktorrent**. Below is an example for [cdist](../cdist): + +``` +mktorrent -a udp://tracker.datacenterlight.ch:6969/announce -n cdist-6.5.0 cdist-6.5.0 +```