Trustix Torrents - no seeders?

[knetknight]

Hello, I'm a long-time TSL user and one of the ways I contribute is to
download and seed each release of the installable 3.0.5 ISO 24x7 until
the next release. It seems that the latest torrents frequently show up
on the TSL torrents page
(http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/torrents.html) before there are
any seeders. I connect and queue anyway but am curious, why is the
torrent file posted publicly before you are even seeding it?

[knetknight]

New relese on 20070629 but, again, there are no seeders. What's the
point of publishing a torrent link before even one seeder is in place
to support it? I'm downloading the iso another way right now and will
start the seeding myself if need be, perhaps this is what you intend?

Post by knetknight
Hello, I'm a long-time TSL user and one of the ways I contribute is to
download and seed each release of the installable 3.0.5 ISO 24x7 until
the next release. It seems that the latest torrents frequently show up
on the TSL torrents page
(http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/torrents.html) before there are
any seeders. I connect and queue anyway but am curious, why is the
torrent file posted publicly before you are even seeding it?
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[knetknight]

Okay, I've downloaded the trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso three
times from both http and ftp and then tried to seed it. Each time I
got a data-length error from my torrent program and it would refuse to
seed.

I checked the MD5 and found this:
[***@knetpc2] $ md5sum trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso
207945b3b083d6f21fa2e1d1310c1a48 trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso

according to the MD5 file on ftp/http the MD5 should be:
cf39ccf2818bc0014b4f9a1b1cf25772 trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso

First time I thought I just got a bad download.. .but all three times
and the exact same bad bits? not likely.

I poked around and found that the MD5 of the 20070604 release matches
what I'm getting for what claims to be the 20070629 3.0.5 iso.

207945b3b083d6f21fa2e1d1310c1a48 trustix-3.0.5-200706041240.i586.iso
and
207945b3b083d6f21fa2e1d1310c1a48 trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso

Hmmm... I'm thinkin' the ftp and http trees aren't quite right, please
take a look, thanks.

[Nived Gopalan]

Post by knetknight
Okay, I've downloaded the trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso three
times from both http and ftp and then tried to seed it. Each time I
got a data-length error from my torrent program and it would refuse to
seed.
207945b3b083d6f21fa2e1d1310c1a48 trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso
cf39ccf2818bc0014b4f9a1b1cf25772 trustix-3.0.5-200706291012.i586.iso
First time I thought I just got a bad download.. .but all three times
and the exact same bad bits? not likely.

There had been some syncing and hardware related issues with the server.
We are working on resolving it.

- Nived