petershaw / libopentracker

An open and free BitTorrent tracker as static Library

This is opentracker. An open bittorrent tracker.

with added a build target for a static library

You need libowfat (http://www.fefe.de/libowfat/).

This tracker is open in a sense that everyone announcing a torrent is welcome to do so and will be informed about anyone else announcing the same torrent. Unless -DWANT_IP_FROM_QUERY_STRING is enabled (which is meant for debugging purposes only), only source IPs are accepted. The tracker implements a minimal set of essential features only but was able respond to far more than 10000 requests per second on a Sun Fire 2200 M2 (thats where we found no more clients able to fire more of our testsuite.sh script).

What is the aslib thing all about?

I needed a bittorrent tracker in one of my projects. Erdgeists OpenTracker just suites very well but the original code builds a binary executable. I need a static lib for my project, so i copy the main-file and replace the main with a function thats called from your project that just starts the tracker.

What to do:

You have to start a thread in which you can call the tracker, otherwise it will block your application.

Steps to go:

cvs -d :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvs -z9 co libowfat
cd libowfat
make
cd ..
cvs -d:pserver:[e-mail]:/home/cvsroot co opentracker
cd opentracker
make
./opentracker

Build opentracker as a static library

make clean && make aslib

Example

#include 
#include 
#include "libopentracker.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    int status;
    status = startOpenTracker();
    printf("%d \n", status);    
    return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

Attention You should call startOpenTracker inside a thread, otherwise it will block your application.

Some tweaks you may want to try under FreeBSD:

sysctl kern.ipc.somaxconn=1024 sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768 sysctl net.inet.tcp.msl=10000 sysctl kern.maxfiles=10240

License information:

Although the libowfat library is under GPL, Felix von Leitner aggreed that the compiled binary may be distributed under the same beer ware license as the source code for opentracker. However, we like to hear from happy customers.