Comments on: Top BitTorrent Trackers Face Major Downtime

By: Ayatholla

Ayatholla — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:22:56 +0000

Well, time is passing and neither OBT or PublicBt are back. I am among those who think that a tracker is needed to keep not so common torrents alive. However, adding trackers is a slow process since already registered torrents will not change if you just ad a tracker in your torrent program (with some exceptions).

So, without knowing if the two mayor trackers will start again, I suggest it is time to ad some more trackers to new torrents.

I have myself started to ad two trackers in the former Soviet Union:

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.kg:2710/announce
http://tracker.openbittorrent.kg:2710/announce

http://tracker.irc.su/announce

They are working, and I think is would be nice places for the media industry to start new law suits in!

By: diesel

diesel — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:42:17 +0000

Torrent trackers are almost obsolete; their main task has been passed along to the peers.

But a short term effect of not having trackers is that there are no stats on websites (eg. how many seeders?). Also, torrents might be take a bit longer to start downloading (often several seconds).

Hosting torrent files is also unnecessary; most modern clients can get the torrent file from peers using just a magnet:? link. http://flickmag.net/magnet-download-instructions.php

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:12:54 +0000

@23, nah edonkey servers are still alive & working fine

I prefer edonkey2000 network anyway than torrents, they always seemed behind really as a)need torrent file or database to get magnet link,
b) often need tracker byt not always

with my edonkey, I don’t need anything but client and so if all servers went down, (not likely though) no databases, I still get me files… Fuk the bus government & censorship

By: Jeroenz0r

Jeroenz0r — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:36:02 +0000

DHT and PEX still working fine, trackers are not needed to continue piracy! :P

By: Historian

Historian — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:59:22 +0000

torrentz.com/i

By: Top BitTorrent Trackers Face Major Downtime | Systema

Top BitTorrent Trackers Face Major Downtime | Systema — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:41:41 +0000

[...] Instead of using a tracker, most downloads work fine when they solely rely on DHT and PEX. Hopefully, both trackers will be fully functioning by the end of next [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:54:14 +0000

@ 37

The magnet link doesn’t hold the file information – add the torrent and it finds the data from the swarm. Then it will d/l fine.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:45:24 +0000

i dl a lot of tv shows in the past days and thanks to dht and pex i didn’t even notice any difference in my dl speed, awesome!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:46:16 +0000

I cant use magnet links in utorrent the same way as normal torrent files. This keeps me from using magnet magnet linksinstead of torrent files.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:47:41 +0000

@ 37
I am able to download through Magnet Link without any problem.