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There is always this 1.4 billion plaintext email:password compilation magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7ffbcd8cee06aba2ce6561688cf68ce2addca0a3&dn=BreachCompilation&tr=udp%3

There is always this 1.4 billion plaintext email:password compilation magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7ffbcd8cee06aba2ce6561688cf68ce2addca0a3&dn=BreachCompilation&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fglotorrents.pw%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337

chatmasta 9y ago
Totally unrelated, but something I've been wondering for a while. Isn't the whole point of magnet links that they use a distributed hash table (DHT)? Why do they need trackers appended to the URL? Is it strictly necessary, or does it just help in bootstrapping the DHT? I always remove those when downloading torrents because I'm paranoid they're obvious markings of torrent traffic, more-so than DHT connections.
- wjh_ 9y ago
  Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.
  - brad0 9y ago
    Are you sure? I always thought that the peers have to be seeded by the trackers. How would you as a peer connect to any other peers without some kind of seed? What IPs do you connect to?
    - martinml 9y ago
      Clients usually have some public, harcoded nodes to bootstrap the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301
- _wmd 9y ago
  DHT isn't magic.. every peer builds a cache of other DHT peers over time, but for a new client it'll have no such cache, so falling back to trackers is still important. (IIRC older DHT clients also fell back to a hardcoded "bootstrap.bittorrent.org" or somesuch DNS name) You might observe when trimming the tracker list off the URL that sometimes you can't find a peer, that's because you've never used the same client to contact what effectively amounts to a subnetwork that has no overlap with any previous subnetwork you leeched from in the past. Especially if you're always fetching the same content (e.g. Game of Thrones episodes) it'll probably just work, but you may find it breaks when you suddenly decide to grab e.g. an old copy of OS/2 or similar, representing a set of BitTorrent users with entirely different interests.
- doomjunky 9y ago
  The trackers are necessary for bootstrapping.
atif089 9y ago
How do I read this file on Windows?
- sameyolo 9y ago
  For large CSV's I've personally used EmEditor in the past with success.

chatmasta 9y ago

Totally unrelated, but something I've been wondering for a while. Isn't the whole point of magnet links that they use a distributed hash table (DHT)? Why do they need trackers appended to the URL? Is it strictly necessary, or does it just help in bootstrapping the DHT? I always remove those when downloading torrents because I'm paranoid they're obvious markings of torrent traffic, more-so than DHT connections.

wjh_ 9y ago
Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.
- brad0 9y ago
  Are you sure? I always thought that the peers have to be seeded by the trackers. How would you as a peer connect to any other peers without some kind of seed? What IPs do you connect to?
  - martinml 9y ago
    Clients usually have some public, harcoded nodes to bootstrap the search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181301
_wmd 9y ago
DHT isn't magic.. every peer builds a cache of other DHT peers over time, but for a new client it'll have no such cache, so falling back to trackers is still important. (IIRC older DHT clients also fell back to a hardcoded "bootstrap.bittorrent.org" or somesuch DNS name) You might observe when trimming the tracker list off the URL that sometimes you can't find a peer, that's because you've never used the same client to contact what effectively amounts to a subnetwork that has no overlap with any previous subnetwork you leeched from in the past. Especially if you're always fetching the same content (e.g. Game of Thrones episodes) it'll probably just work, but you may find it breaks when you suddenly decide to grab e.g. an old copy of OS/2 or similar, representing a set of BitTorrent users with entirely different interests.
doomjunky 9y ago
The trackers are necessary for bootstrapping.

atif089 9y ago

How do I read this file on Windows?

sameyolo 9y ago
For large CSV's I've personally used EmEditor in the past with success.