Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop

[k41zen at live.co.uk (k41zen)]

Count me in too. I don't mind donating or seeding. May as-well put my Virgin pipe to good use.

On 12 Feb 2010, at 01:35, Tim Krabec wrote:

> I've got 3 servers soon to be 4 online. I think there are enough of us  
> with servers and good home bandwidth to handle the load after an  
> initial seed
>
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Stephen Reese <rsreese at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have several Linode hosts around the US but they don't have nearly
> > the storage nor bandwidth to host this data...
> >
> > I recently spoke with Hurricane Electric and they have a pretty good
> > deal on a dedicated host with a 100Mb/s pipe, unlimited transfer and
> > enough storage (500GB) to host the tables plus the 60Gigs of tables I
> > already have, ~$70 month. If enough people were interested in donating
> > a small amount to the cost then we could put in on a dedicated box.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Bit torrent would be ok for sharing after the con but sharing during
> > > the event is harder because people seem to be happy leaving usb  
> > > drives
> > > around but not their laptops.
> > >
> > > It would have to be on a private network as we wouldn't want to go on
> > > the main Shmoocon network and max that one out even though it might
> > > give more people access if they could leave their machines in their
> > > rooms collecting data.
> > >
> > > Robin
> > >
> > > On 10 February 2010 14:58, David Auclair <d.auclair at utoronto.ca>  
> > > wrote:
> > > > This sounds like the perfect application for BitTorrent.
> > > >
> > > > Without getting into too many details, a group I know wanted to  
> > > > distribute a 5GB dataset to ~100 computers.  They distributed it  
> > > > via BitTorrent, and they maxed out the bandwidth of their  
> > > > network.  (all ports on the switches were saturated bidirectionally)
> > > >
> > > > -Dave
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: pauldotcom-bounces at pdc-mail.pauldotcom.com  
> > > > > [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at pdc-mail.pauldotcom.com]
> > > > > On Behalf Of Robin Wood
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:22 PM
> > > > > To: PaulDotCom Mailing List
> > > > > Subject: [Pauldotcom] Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop
> > > > >
> > > > > So, Shmoocon is over and the swapshop happened. Unfortunately it
> > > > > wasn't as successful as it could have been but for the first  
> > > > > attempt I
> > > > > think it went OK.
> > > > >
> > > > > A number of people donated tables and others leached sets, the  
> > > > > problem
> > > > > turned out to be that the initial donation was about 300GB and to  
> > > > > copy
> > > > > that from one external disk to a second was taking up to 7 hours,  
> > > > > when
> > > > > two people were copying that time shot up even more.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I get back home to the UK I'll do an inventory of what I
> > > > > collected and find some way to share it out to those who want  
> > > > > copies.
> > > > > I'll also have a play with different methods of running the  
> > > > > system to
> > > > > try to drop that time down to something more manageable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks to Darren and Larry for donating hardware and the PaulDotCom
> > > > > crew in general for keeping an eye on the setup while I was running
> > > > > round doing other con activities.
> > > > >
> > > > > Robin
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