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Well it's a free tracker for torrents. A tracker is a server that manages the swarm of people sharing a torrent file. I'm not sure why this is really necessary
by brokenmachine 7y ago
Well it's a free tracker for torrents. A tracker is a server that manages the swarm of people sharing a torrent file.
I'm not sure why this is really necessary given the existence of trackerless DHT torrents though. Maybe using a tracker makes it faster somehow?
- nodja 7y agoHaving a tracker is faster and also helps you bootstrap your DHT if you're having problems connecting to the bootstrap peers hardcoded in your client.