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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by jedberg on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:21PM (#44302149)
This is like when cloudflare picked up the IP address 1.1.1.1. They saw a ton of traffic to it as soon as it went hot, because a bunch of people had scripts pointing at it.
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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by waymon on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:30PM (#44304691)
How did they get that address?
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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by jedberg on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:36PM (#44304730)
“ APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network.”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by udev4096 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:01AM (#44306802)
On a separate note, why was cloudflare given the ownership of 1.1.1.1?
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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:40AM (#44306945)
It is explained in that blogpost from Cloudflare

'We offered Cloudflare's network to receive and study the garbage traffic in exchange for being able to offer a DNS resolver on the memorable IPs'

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