Snakebite: A Multi-Platfrom, Stand-Alone BitTorrent Server

WebKnowHow
Tuesday, August 29, 2006; 04:38 AM

The University of Texas New Media Initiative in association with Google's Summer of Code have produced a new type of BitTorent P2P software application, which makes sharing files easier.  The software, called Snakebite, was written by Google Summer of Code student Evan Wilson under the mentorship of "hacker genius and rollerskate limbo champion" Brandon Wiley.

A BitTorrent network. Credit: ACTLab TV

Snakebite merges all of the applications in the BitTorrent suite into a stand-alone server. For each file to be served, Snakebite automatically generates a tracker, a seeder and a .torrent file using a configurable watch folder mechanism, and then announces the new downloadable file to the Internet.

Currently Snakebite is available for download as a Debian package.  Source code (written in the Python programming language) and Windows executables are announced on the project's website and should be online shortly.

Like all Google Summer of Code projects, Snakebite is free open source software.