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by aroch 4569 days ago
BTSync is the obvious "Duh!" answer. Since its UDP traffic, controlled by DHT (so long as you disable their central tracker in your conf) and updates on the fly.

What I wind up doing (since I don't trust BTsync) is using inotify to watch the sync directory + mktorrent to create a new torrent on file change + pypush to push the new .torrent to various servers
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steeve 4569 days ago
Yeah but then you end up changing the info hash, and thus your magnet is changed.

What I'm trying to do is to basically embed the magnet link in my program and sort of having it self check itself for updates. It that makes sense :)

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fredsted 4569 days ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the magnet link a hash of the files? Then it would not be possible to change the files without changing the link.
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steeve 4569 days ago
it is exactly that, unfortunately...
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dvanduzer 4569 days ago
Whether it's helpful for any current efforts using BT infrastructure, there's been a lot of work on this problem since Van Jacobsen sketched the outlines a few years ago:

http://named-data.net/

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