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Does apt-p2p support Local Peer Discovery?

Asked by Kerry Hatcher

Does apt-p2p support local peer discovery like utorrent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery

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Gosane (treborn) said : 		#1

short answer = no
It is not a torrent client but uses Distributed Hash Table (DHT) to lookup peers that have files

see the faqs here
http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/faq/

perhaps this may do it for you
http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

A Campaign: Use Apt-P2P!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=937120

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