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BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol.

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Pushing Large Files to 500+ Computers

I work with a team to manage 500-600 rented Windows 7 computers for an annual conference. We have a large amount of data that needs to be synced to these computers, up to 1 TiB. The computers are divided into rooms and connected through unmanaged…
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mod_security block requests by http-host header

The last few days I noticed some servers being hammered with unknown requests. Most of them are like the following: 60.246.*.* - - [03/Jan/2015:20:59:16 +0200] "GET…
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How to distribute torrent files?

I am doing some distributed work with RackSpace cloud servers and I am using bittorrent to distribute my files. It works surprisingly well. However, distributing the torrent files themselves are not so nice. How would you go around doing that? Right…
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Battling Bittorrent

Here is an interesting problem/scenario that some sysadmins out there might enjoy: An apartment building owner is giving away free internet access to his tennants. Basically he has a T1 coming to the building and every apartment has a CAT5 plug in…
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Is it possible to use bittorrent for a fileserver

I would like to set up a file server that is searchable, preferable via the web. I'm wondering if it would be possible to achieve this using the bittorrent protocol and have a single client sharing every single torrent on the server. I guess I could…
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Is BitTorrent good for copy files between servers in the workplace?

I have 1 source server that contains about 30GB of files that I want to copy to 7 other servers. I currently SCP the files over to the first four servers and when that transfer is complete SCP to the last 3 servers. Would using BitTorrent be faster…
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Blocking BitTorrent

How can one block, or severely slow down, BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer (P2P) services on one's small office network? In searching Server Fault I wasn't able to find a question that served as a rallying point for the best technical ideas on…
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SOHO - throttle bittorrent traffic from problem users

I manage the network in a small office (SW dev is my "real job"), and there are a couple of users who beat the hell out of our internet connection by running bittorrent. Between the almost crippling effect on the upload side (20Mbps) and the…
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Bittorrent ports, why do I need them?

I'm considering a file distribution between branch offices that uses Bittorrent. I understand that a Bittorrent client needs ports in the range of 6881-6999 to be forwarded to the internet to make the transfer faster. What I don't understand is: how…
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block Torrent through firewall

is there a way to block users on firewall level from using torrents?
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Setting up a torrent tracker and seeder

I'm one of the leaders of revora.net, a creative gaming network that freely hosts lots of game (modding) projects. Lately, bandwidth has been an issue somewhat. To alleviate this we want to give our users the option to share their huge files with…
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Limit torrents via QoS on router

I have a very simple linksys router at home with basic support for QoS. We have a problem when everyone is at home that web browsing becomes unusable. I've tracked it down to too many people downloading torrents. Can someone give me some advice on…
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Using torrent to share very large files

At our institute, we will soon need to routinely share large volumes of data (multi-terabyte range). Would it make sense to use BitTorrent for this task? How large of a CPU/memory overhead is to be expected, compared to common FTP servers? Is it…
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large (30+ at a time) scale cloning of hard disks

I know that it is possible in *nix to clone a hard disk within a machine using DD if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb I am wondering if something similar could be accomplished over a LAN (assuming a decent gigabit switch) with BitTorrent. Would it be possible…
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Cisco ASA - Blocking BitTorrent Traffic

Due to DMCA takedown notices, trying to block bitTorrent traffic for client on a Cisco ASA 5520. ASA Software : 7.2 ASDM: 5.2 The device is really just used for for NAT and VPN's currently. Is there a simple way to block bitTorrent TCP ports…
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