Hi!

I am using ktorrent regulary - and I am having much fun with it! - Ktorrent has a great concept behind it I think!

Some time ago I started to use bittorrent for private files. Larger files for example that I want to share with friends and colleagues privately. I also wrote a small german HOWTO about Ktorrent and how to use an own tracker for private purposes ( http://wiki.kubuntu-de.org/Kubuntu_benu ... t_Ktorrent ) because I thought that bittorrent is a promising and comfortable way to use for sharing things. - For sure you do not want to share your private photo collections or documents etc. on a big tracker site - at least I have a bad feeling about that But it is not only great for privacy (if you use your own tracker) because there is no sharehoster between, but also very handy because of the self-healing mechanism that does not allow download errors, or for downloading only parts of a folder etc.

Personally I have used the Apache mod_bt module a while as a tracker. The good thing about it is that it is always online if Apache starts (normally automatically if you start your machine). - A tracker that is very easy to use - also for testing purposes is of course bttrack, the tracker that comes with the command line package "bittorrent".

So the only thing I am missing in the moment - but could not find it in Ktorrent - is a built-in tracker module. I was always asking myself why it is not already there... Did I miss anything? Such a module would be handy as it starts with the start of Ktorrent - with serving the content - automatically. It would also make such server easier and more handy and comfortable. It would bring such service to the GUI world that is inhabited by mouse using Desktop users at home/in office.

The module should be able to offer

* to use the local, internal network
* to detect the actual public ip address and use it (maybe also update it)
* to use a given dynamic DNS
* to offer some statistics - maybe as a webpage like other trackers do

It would be great if there would be a (GUI) mechanism to accept or deny torrents from outside. - Which in fact can be used by others to upload files to your own computer just by using a torrent with your Ktorrent tracker address.

Ktorrent has had the ability to make own torrents like the original bittorrent program has for a long time - maybe since the beginning. But in my eyes the program is not a complete tool without the possibility to serve torrents...


I am still wondering if I have missed anything on this great Ktorrent tool. But I am curious what others think about such a module for it!


Thanks for replies! - Have fun!

Yes it would be a nice feature, and we already have a functioning http server (web interface plugin), however my time is limited, and I have a lot of other things to do.

Hi George! - Yes, the http-server is already there, true!

Thanks for a short answer! - For me personally it works and it will work for lots of others! - Implementing a handy GUI would just be future orientated thing for bittorrent I'm pressing thumbs for time management... I did not expect to see this feature immediately ... I was even wondering why I could not find it ... My personal programming skills are awful - I hope that it could be realized in the future as a plugin!

All the best!