Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
So I was uh, downloading some linux isos, like usual. It was going slowly, so I opened up the Trackers tab in qBittorrent and saw the following:
Most of the trackers were totally dead. Either the hosts were down or the domains weren’t being used.
That got me thinking. What if I picked up one of these dead domains? How many clients would try to connect?
What are trackers for, anyways?
A tracker is a core component of the BitTorrent protocol. Trackers are the services that point you to other peers...
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