NAME

       bttrack — bittorrent tracker

SYNOPSIS

       bttrack [options ...]  --dfile file

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the bttrack command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does
       not have a manual page.

       bttrack is a "tracker" for bittorrent clients. This program keeps track of the  completion
       of each client, and communicates that information when requested to other clients.

       There  is  one  required  option,  --dfile,  which specifies what file to store the recent
       downloader information.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options  starting  with
       two dashes (`--').  A summary of options is included below.

       --dfile file
                 the file to store the recent downloader information (required)

       --port port
                 the port to listen on (defaults to 80)

       --bind ip|hostname[,ip|hostname ...]
                 a comma-separated list of ips and hostnames to bind to locally (defaults to '')

       --ipv6_enabled 0|1
                 whether to allow the tracker to connect to peers via IPv6 (defaults to 0)

       --ipv6_binds_v4 0|1
                 whether an IPv6 server socket will also field IPv4 connections (defaults to 0)

       --socket_timeout seconds
                 then  number of seconds to use as a timeout for closing connections (defaults to
                 15)

       --save_dfile_interval seconds
                 the number of seconds between saving the dfile (defaults to 300)

       --timeout_downloaders_interval seconds
                 the number of seconds between expiring downloaders (defaults to 2700)

       --reannounce_interval seconds
                 the number of seconds downloaders should wait between reannouncements  (defaults
                 to 1800)

       --response_size num
                 the num of peers to send in an info message (defaults to 50)

       --timeout_check_interval seconds
                 the number of seconds to wait between checking if any connections have timed out
                 (defaults to 5)

       --nat_check num
                 check num times if a downloader is behind a NAT (0 = don't check)  (defaults  to
                 3)

       --log_nat_checks 0|1
                 whether to add entries to the log for nat-check results (defaults to 0)

       --min_time_between_log_flushes seconds
                 the  minimum  number  of  seconds  it  must have been since the last flush to do
                 another one (defaults to 3.0)

       --min_time_between_cache_refreshes seconds
                 the minimum number of seconds before a cache is considered stale and is  flushed
                 (defaults to 600.0)

       --allowed_dir directory
                 only allow downloads for torrents in this directory (defaults to '')

       --allowed_list file
                 only  allow downloads for hashes in this file (hex format, one per line), cannot
                 be used with allowed_dir (defaults to '')

       --allowed_controls 0|1
                 whether to allow special keys in torrents in the allowed_dir to  affect  tracker
                 access (defaults to 0)

       --multitracker_enabled 0|1
                 whether to enable multitracker operation (defaults to 0)

       --multitracker_allowed autodetect|none|all
                 whether  to  allow  incoming  tracker announces (can be none, autodetect or all)
                 (defaults to 'autodetect')

       --multitracker_reannounce_interval seconds
                 number of seconds between outgoing tracker announces (defaults to 120)

       --multitracker_maxpeers num
                 the num of peers to get in a tracker announce (defaults to 20)

       --aggregate_forward url[,password]
                 if set, forwards all non-multitracker to this url with  this  optional  password
                 (defaults to '')

       --aggregator 0|1|password
                 whether to act as a data aggregator rather than a tracker. If enabled, may be 1,
                 or password; if password is set, then  an  incoming  password  is  required  for
                 access (defaults to '0')

       --hupmonitor 0|1
                 whether to reopen the log file upon receipt of HUP signal (defaults to 0)

       --http_timeout seconds
                 number  of seconds to wait before assuming that an http connection has timed out
                 (defaults to 60)

       --parse_dir_interval seconds
                 number of seconds between reloading of allowed_dir (defaults to 60)

       --show_infopage 0|1
                 whether to display an info page when the tracker's root dir is loaded  (defaults
                 to 1)

       --infopage_redirect URL
                 redirect the info page to this URL (defaults to '')

       --show_names 0|1
                 whether to display names from allowed dir (defaults to 1)

       --favicon filename
                 the  filename containing x-icon data to return when browser requests favicon.ico
                 (defaults to '')

       --allowed_ips file
                 only allow connections from IPs specified in  the  given  file,  which  contains
                 subnet data in the format: aa.bb.cc.dd/len (defaults to '')

       --banned_ips file
                 don't  allow connections from IPs specified in the given file, which contains IP
                 range data in the format: xxx:xxx:ip1-ip2 (defaults to '')

       --only_local_override_ip 0|1|2
                 ignore the ip GET parameter from machines which aren't on local network IPs (0 =
                 never, 1 = always, 2 = ignore if NAT checking is not enabled) (defaults to 2)

       --logfile file
                 write tracker logs to this file, use '-' for stdout (defaults to '-')

       --allow_get 0|1
                 use  with  allowed_dir; adds a /file?hash=hash URL that allows users to download
                 the torrent file (defaults to 0)

       --keep_dead 0|1
                 keep dead torrents after they expire (so they still show up on your /scrape  and
                 web page) (defaults to 0)

       --scrape_allowed full|specific|none
                 scrape access allowed (can be none, specific or full) (defaults to full)

       --dedicated_seed_id code
                 the  code  to  require from clients to indicate that they are dedicated seeders.
                 This allows the tracker to  monitor  dedicated  seed(s)  and  flag  torrents  as
                 seeded. (defaults to '')

SEE ALSO

       bittorrent-downloader(1),

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> (based on the original
       man pages written by Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>) for the Debian system (but may  be
       used  by  others).   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU  General  Public  License,  Version  2  or  any  later  version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On  Debian  systems,  the  complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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