New Auto-Seeding Torrent Server Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 28, 2006 @11:29PM from the making-life-easier dept.

ludwigvan968 writes "The University of Texas New Media Initiative in association with Google's Summer of Code program have been working on a project to make sharing files over the internet easier than ever before. Summer of Code intern Evan Wilson just released Project Snakebite, the first fully automatic BitTorrent server. Just as with a normal webserver, you drop files in a folder to share them. Snakebite takes care of generating torrent files and running a tracker and a seeder for each file. Additionally, it builds a user-customizable link page with all of your files. It will even register your Snakebite server with an easy to remember URL for people that can't remember their IP. Snakebite is free and open software and is currently released for Debian. It's fully portable to both Windows and OS X and the developers just need some help packaging it."

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Automatic + Open = Garbage in? by thehunger · 2006-08-28 23:38 · Score: 4, Insightful

With an unattended, fully automatic, open torrent server, how are you going to stop it from being filled with trash (ie. pr0n, infected files, illegal material) etc?
The .deb doesn't work on Debian by hacker · 2006-08-29 01:41 · Score: 3, Insightful

Oops! Another case of not testing your software before you release it.
# dpkg -i snakebite-rc3.deb Selecting previously deselected package snakebite. (Reading database ... 100410 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking snakebite (from snakebite-rc3.deb) ... Setting up snakebite (1.1) ... Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/snakebite ... /etc/rc0.d/K20snakebite -> ../init.d/snakebite ... aphrodite:/tmp# /etc/init.d/snakebite start Starting Snakebite...Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/snakebite", line 16, in ? from BitTorrent.defaultargs import get_defaults ImportError: No module named defaultargs .