/Ocelot

A BitTorrent tracker

Primary LanguageC++OtherNOASSERTION

Ocelot

Ocelot is a BitTorrent tracker written in C++, forked from WhatCD/Ocelot. It supports requests over TCP and can track IPv4/IPv6 peers.

New Features

  • Support ipv6 protocol
  • Discount on torrents, such as 100%, 50%, 30% free, which is supported by traditional tracker
  • Statistics of users' uploaded/downloaded volume size, last seed time, etc.
  • Fixed some issues

Ocelot Compile-time Dependencies

Installation

The Gazelle installation guides include instructions for installing Ocelot as a part of the Gazelle project.

Standalone Installation

  • Create the following tables according to the Gazelle database schema, i.e. gazelle.sql:

    • torrents
    • users_freeleeches
    • users_main
    • xbt_client_whitelist
    • xbt_files_users
    • xbt_snatched
    • users_freetorrents
    • users_torrents
  • Edit ocelot.conf(copied from template ocelot.conf.dist) to your liking.

  • Build Ocelot:

apt-get update

apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
build-essential \
automake \
cmake \
default-libmysqlclient-dev \
libboost-iostreams-dev \
libboost-system-dev \
libev-dev \
libjemalloc-dev \
libmysql++-dev \
pkg-config

./configure --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ \
--with-ev-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ \
--with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

make && make install
  • Run Ocelot:
./ocelot

If the service is to run in production, systemd is recommended to manage it.

Running Ocelot in Container

  • Prepare Docker Image

    Run these commands from the root directory of this repository.

docker build --no-cache -t gpw-ocelot:latest -f Dockerfile .

If this is to deploy in production, remove CXXFLAGS=-D__DEBUG_BUILD__ which is for testing purpose, such as allowing peer connections from local networks

  • Start the containers

    • Deploy Gazelle firstly by following instructions GazellePW Getting Started
    • The container can be started using the previously built image gpw-ocelot:latest. We use gazelle as parent here so that the containers under the same parent gazelle can communicate with each other under the same network.
docker-compose -p gazelle up -d

Testing Ocelot

Note: The following instructions are assumed that GazellePW(gpw-web) and Ocelot(gpw-ocelot) have already been running in container mode.

  • Register as a user from start webpage http://localhost:9000

  • Upload a torrent (may need to restart the gpw-ocelot container to reload torrents from database if gpw-web is started with tracker disabled)

  • Send announce request for testing, here is an example:

curl 'http://127.0.0.1:34000/<YOUR PASSKEY>/announce?info_hash=<TORRENT INFO HASH ENCODED>&peer_id=-DE203s-TQaEVc.-mzuO&port=32777&uploaded=0&downloaded=0&left=0&corrupt=0&key=449DBE8D&event=completed&numwant=200&compact=1&no_peer_id=1&supportcrypto=1&redundant=0'  --output temp

Run-time options:

  • -c <path/to/ocelot.conf> - Path to config file. If unspecified, the current working directory is used.
  • -v - Print queue status every time a flush is initiated.

Signals

  • SIGHUP - Reload config
  • SIGUSR1 - Reload torrent list, user list and client whitelist