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Technically speaking, what occurs when you mark a torrent private? Does it actually block trackers from picking it up or just like tell them not to if they wan
by cgb223 6y ago
Technically speaking, what occurs when you mark a torrent private?
Does it actually block trackers from picking it up or just like tell them not to if they want to obey it?
- arsome 6y agoI'm not an expert on this, but as far as I'm aware, the main difference is that your client won't go out and announce the infohash to the DHT (used for trackerless torrents, magnet links, that kind of thing) and won't provide it to other clients for download. It'll only ever send requests relating to it to the trackers specifically listed within the torrent itself. This means that anyone who wants to download it basically needs to posses the torrent file. Trackers don't really crawl in this way, however, some searching sites like the one I mentioned there do, they'll go out and look at the entire DHT, trying to find entries that they don't know yet and when they find one - go download the torrent and post it to their index.