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"In June 2005, BitTorrent, Inc. released version 4.2.0 of the Mainline BitTorrent client. This release supported "trackerless" torrents, featuring a DHT impleme

by bd 18y ago

"In June 2005, BitTorrent, Inc. released version 4.2.0 of the Mainline BitTorrent client. This release supported "trackerless" torrents, featuring a DHT implementation which allowed the client to use torrents that do not have a working BitTorrent tracker." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Distributed_trackers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Distribut... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

dmix 18y ago
Have there been any good examples of a peer-to-peer distribution of torrent files? From what I've seen its been either the trackers or search engines indexing the trackers that distribute the torrents most effectively.
- tlrobinson 18y ago
  Gnutella and other protocols seemed to be pretty good at distributed searching, couldn't you just plug one of those protocols into the BitTorrent clients for distributing the torrents?
- blasdel 18y ago
  There's not really a coherent distributed system for the torrent files, but there's not really a need, the ad-hoc system works pretty well. The real problem is tracking the active clients -- without widespread DHT trackers like TPB would have collapsed under their own weight years ago. As it is there's frequent timeouts and massive response latency. It doesn't help that the software running the trackers is almost universally awful PHP garbage.