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I'm curious, what does this do to account for trackers randomly listing fake IP addresses? Seems like trackers could bring the whole thing to its knees with a c
by mullingitover 14y ago
I'm curious, what does this do to account for trackers randomly listing fake IP addresses? Seems like trackers could bring the whole thing to its knees with a couple weeks of mass spoofing. After about the millionth false positive the customers will start lawyering up.
- nwh 14y agoThey would just follow the torrent swarm. If the tracker gives an address that doesn't have a client behind it, then assume it is fake. You'd also cause a lot of traffic to the spoofed addresses, which is suboptimal.