> bittorrent.org acknowledges the need & the issue It does not acknowledge or imply that what you are doing (forged replies) is necessary. It only acknowledges

> bittorrent.org acknowledges the need & the issue It does not acknowledge or imply that what you are doing (forged replies) is necessary. It only acknowledges that indexing happens in the wild and that when it is happening nodes are currently incentivized to misbehave, that does not mean they need to misbehave to achieve their goals. > and calls it bad, not "egregious". That's nitpicking words, a spec is obviously written in a more conservative tone. Your implementation is far outside specs, intentionally so to manipulate the behavior of other clients. > This means that the network is more resilient than you claim and the chances that a few hundred (or thousand, in future) magnetico instances will harm the network is near zero. I have not denied that the network has some resilience or claimed that a single instance of this code running will destroy the network. I am saying that your code is misbehaving and greedy, which makes it a bad citizen in a p2p environment. > BEP 51 is still a draft Hardly relevant, many widely deployed BEPs are in draft status. > AFAIK no clients in the wild implements it That's not entirely true, but even assuming that it is it is not relevant either because BEP51 is not the only approach to be a good citizen while indexing the DHT.