From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-09-10T16:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] BItTorrent: A Force for Good or Evil? (Re: Videos of Ruby Conference)

Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@gmail.com> wrote:
> Almost invariably for me the problem is firewalling.  Opening all of
> those ports is usually difficult or impossible to get your network
> admin to do.  At home I often have a situation where I'm roaming
> around the house with a laptop on a wireless DHCP connection, so
> setting up port forwarding to go to my dynamic IP is impractical.

There was something posted to slashdot a few months back about a service
that would cache and serve up large files for you. 

Something like Coral [http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/] (which would
work too, but this one was specifically for serving up large files)

martin