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There is single point of failure, kill the tracker = kill the whole network. You can get all the IPs from the tracker that are visiting certain site, it's not s
by lossolo 10y ago
There is single point of failure, kill the tracker = kill the whole network.
You can get all the IPs from the tracker that are visiting certain site, it's not so secure if someone is not using tor.
- the8472 10y agoBittorrent supports more peer sources than just trackers, DHT being the most important one among the others.
- lossolo 10y agoIt's not supported by ZeroNet.
- the8472 10y agothere are libraries, it shouldn't be difficult for them to add that. Oh, they say the following on their issue tracker: > zeronet protocol is different from torrent, so libtorrent will not work. So the headline is misleading?
- testaccount2017 10y agoYes, it's misleading. It's peer to peer but it doesn't speak the same protocol. You can look at the docs of its network protocol. https://zeronet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/help_zeronet/network_protocol/ https://zeronet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/help_zeronet/networ...
- Ajedi32 10y agoYou sure about that? Their presentation [says][1] "Tracker-less peer exchange is also supported". Any idea what that's referring to? [1]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_2qK1IuOKJ51pgBvllZ9Yu7Au2l551t3XBgyTSvilew/pub?slide=id.g9a3b93883_1_0 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_2qK1IuOKJ51pgBvllZ9...
- lossolo 10y agoThat one peer can send their peers. It's called peer exchange.