Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @05:24PM (#44304121)

Is it really going to be all that bad?

The BitTorrent clients I’ve used all seemed pretty polite, backing off for like 60s at least for each tracker they can’t connect to.

If you buy one of the dead tracker domains and point it at an IP of someone else, but their services aren’t even listening on the port client wants to connect to (and don’t speak BitTorrent even if the port happened to coincide), I can’t imagine that even with a million BitTorrent clients wanting to connect it would really be all that much of a problem.

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by jldugger on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:57PM (#44305978)

It can be: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/chinese-bittorrent-the-gift...

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by globular-toast on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:56AM (#44307303)

Careful. This guy doesn't like HN and you'll get a picture of a testicle if you click.

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by mouse_ on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:19AM (#44309231)

what a guy

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by ChoGGi on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:09AM (#44309586)

Better than goatse

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by graealex on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:00AM (#44309966)

I do like the commitment of registering a whole domain for no other purpose as to be able to spam a single picture, though.

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 on Friday June 20, 2025 @05:13AM (#44325903)

Everyone else that visits the site from other places get the actual content and not the testicle. So it’s not just that one image. That only shows up when your referrer is HN.

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by jldugger on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:35PM (#44311330)

Whoops, i thought i tested that and it didnt do that for me anymore. must have been a cached response

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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers by immibis on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:58AM (#44308022)

So that's one request per 60 seconds - times 3,000,000 or so clients. See the problem? That's 50,000 requests per second.

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