Magnet link generator

Re:Magnet link generator by JeremyBanks on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:12PM (#19234617)

I suggest including a few of the largest open trackers by default. You'll have a high hit rate for semi-popular torrents, and they can be faster than waiting for a cold DHT lookup in most clients. It's a minor decrease in privacy, but the BitTorrent network isn't really eavesdropping-resistant in the first place.

I wish IPFS had finished their BitTorrent support so we could use their standard gateway paths instead. The prefix https://ipfs.io/ipfs/f017b1114 should identify a hex-encoded BitTorrent infohash, letting us use a full URL like https://ipfs.io/ipfs/f017b111464d052f755e01d1c947848ad3d2218... through any IPFS gateway, which would resolve the content using a combination of IPFS' own network and BitTorrent with its DHT, but the implementation was never completed.

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Re:Magnet link generator by tengio on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:20PM (#19234658)

Good point. Is there any place where to get an updated list of trackers?

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Re:Magnet link generator by CorralPeltzer on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:57PM (#19235427)

https://newtrackon.com/list

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Re:Magnet link generator by itdaniher on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:04PM (#19235461)

This is great! Thanks for the recommendation.

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Re:Magnet link generator by crtasm on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:42AM (#19238194)

But don't add all 54 on a magnet/torrent, two should be enough, maybe four at most.

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Re:Magnet link generator by DavideNL on Saturday February 23, 2019 @05:17PM (#19235795)

https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist/blob/master/trackers...

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Re:Magnet link generator by sp332 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:17PM (#19235248)

I haven't used trackers in years. Have you noticed a "cold DHT lookup" taking a long time recently?

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Re:Magnet link generator by itdaniher on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:55PM (#19235414)

I don't understand why, but I believe I've observed similar. Possible hypotheses include:

DHT Sybil attack? Hash ring bloat? Bad peers distributing exclusively irrelevant content?

Wonder if this is a common observation, and if so, what kind of research might elucidate the underlying change.

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