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Is it really going to be all that bad? The BitTorrent clients I’ve used all seemed pretty polite, backing off for like 60s at least for each tracker they can’t
by 57473m3n7Fur7h3 1y ago
Is it really going to be all that bad?
The BitTorrent clients I’ve used all seemed pretty polite, backing off for like 60s at least for each tracker they can’t connect to.
If you buy one of the dead tracker domains and point it at an IP of someone else, but their services aren’t even listening on the port client wants to connect to (and don’t speak BitTorrent even if the port happened to coincide), I can’t imagine that even with a million BitTorrent clients wanting to connect it would really be all that much of a problem.
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- jldugger 1y agoIt can be: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/chinese-bittorrent-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/chinese-bittorrent-the-gift...
- globular-toast 1y agoCareful. This guy doesn't like HN and you'll get a picture of a testicle if you click.
- mouse_ 1y agowhat a guy
- ChoGGi 1y agoBetter than goatse
- graealex 1y agoI do like the commitment of registering a whole domain for no other purpose as to be able to spam a single picture, though.
- 57473m3n7Fur7h3 1y agoEveryone else that visits the site from other places get the actual content and not the testicle. So it’s not just that one image. That only shows up when your referrer is HN.
- jldugger 1y agoWhoops, i thought i tested that and it didnt do that for me anymore. must have been a cached response
- immibis 1y agoSo that's one request per 60 seconds - times 3,000,000 or so clients. See the problem? That's 50,000 requests per second.