Comments on: OpenBitTorrent Tracker Returns After Hollywood Shutdown http://torrentfreak.com/openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Adam /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-671366 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:29:11 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-671366 What I don’t understand is why are the MAFIAA so concerned about these “headless” public trackers?

By headless, I mean, they do not offer “search” functionality of ANY kind….

Furthermore, openbittorrent and publicbt are doing about EXACTLY the same function as BitTorrent DHT, uTorrent DHT, and Azureus DHT; when you connect to the DHT network, you tell the DHT network what hash you are looking for, and the network points you to peers (seeds) on the network.

EXACTLY the same thing that these other “headless” trackers (openbittorrent and publicbt) do….

So how is router.bittorrent.com, router.utorrent.com, and the Azureus/Vuze DHT “immune”?

]]> By: Adam of Movia Desert /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-669390 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:06:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-669390 “OpenBitTorrent is currently battling for the title of the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker with PublicBitTorrent, another standalone tracker that runs on the Opentracker software. Both trackers handle the communications of between 20 and 30 million BitTorrent users at any given time of the day.”

I don’t get it, what’s the point of this “battle” – just use both and let it be? :) No point in NOT using both trackers as fail-safe alternatives if you really think about it.

As for me, as of this moment:
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce Connection timed out.
http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce working

For what it’s worth, currently tracker.openbittorrent.com resolves to 84.243.202.177 BUT, could just be overloaded, or not accepting requests at this moment.

But why the WWW working, but not the UDP?

]]> By: Seedpeer /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-669383 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:52:41 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-669383 Join http://www.seedpeer.com you will find everything you wish here.

]]> By: Harquebus /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-668221 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:23:23 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-668221 It’s up for me.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.openbittorrent.com

http://www.dnstools.com/?count=1&lookup=on&wwwhois=on&arin=on&checkp=on&portNum=80&ping=on&all=on&target=www.openbittorrent.com&submit=Go!

I think the domain is registered in South America and the site hosted in the Netherlands.

]]> By: Anonymouse /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-667979 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:57:10 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-667979 It doesn’t matter about the tracker it self, just as long as the domain directs to a working tracker.

]]> By: *D /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-667289 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:30:49 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-667289 IRC says: “forum is under maintenance”

So they’ll be back when they’re done.

]]> By: *D /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-667132 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:34:52 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-667132 ^it’s been down for almost 1 week

and no idea

maybe they’re working on something

]]> By: curious /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-667123 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:49:12 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-667123 Anyway, what’s up with suprbay? that’s been down for weeks or so.

]]> By: curious /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-667122 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:46:40 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-667122 Well, sites back up, and the UDP tracker is online too, guess they were fixing the udp tracker all along.

]]> By: Anonymous /openbittorrent-tracker-returns-after-hollywood-shutdown-100603/#comment-667082 Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:53:03 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=24387#comment-667082 It’s back up, the website works, too.

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