[WBEL-devel] Re: [WBEL-users] Bittorrent download stuck at 99%

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:50, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I am not a bittorrent expert (actually I barely can use it!) ... but if
> you use the tool torrentsniff you will see that none of the people who
> are using
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/liberation-final-bins-fixed.torrent are
> completing the download ... you have (currently):
> 
>    full copies:    0 seeds
>    partial copies: 27 leeches
> 
> If you do the same to
> http://www.linuxlobbyist.net/torrents/final-bins-fixed.torrent you will
> see the following:
> 
>    full copies:    8 seeds
>    partial copies: 0 leeches
> 
> I don't know anything about how bittorent works, but I am sure that no
> one has been able to complete the wbl.org torrent and everyone who has
> tried has completed the linuxlobbyist.net torrent.
> 
> Charles Lacour posted in "Re: [WBEL-devel] Curious thing with the
> bittorrents..." yesterday that "The ISOs are right, I'm pretty sure, but
> for something somewhere in disc 2, there's a bad hash. Since the 256K
> block in the ISO image is good, but the hash is bad, everybody gets
> everything else and then tries over and over to refetch that one block."
> 
> I don't have any idea if it is correct, but something is defiantly
> happening.
> 
> -Johnny Hughes
> 
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