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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

(kianbradley.com)
655 points k-ian | 5 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. jedberg ◴[17 Jun 25 18:21 UTC] No.44302149[source]▶
This is like when cloudflare picked up the IP address 1.1.1.1. They saw a ton of traffic to it as soon as it went hot, because a bunch of people had scripts pointing at it.
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2. waymon ◴[17 Jun 25 22:30 UTC] No.44304691[source]▶
How did they get that address?
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3. jedberg ◴[17 Jun 25 22:36 UTC] No.44304730[source]▶
“ APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network.”

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

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4. udev4096 ◴[18 Jun 25 05:01 UTC] No.44306802{3}[source]▶
On a separate note, why was cloudflare given the ownership of 1.1.1.1?
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5. rs_rs_rs_rs_rs ◴[18 Jun 25 05:40 UTC] No.44306945{4}[source]▶
It is explained in that blogpost from Cloudflare

'We offered Cloudflare's network to receive and study the garbage traffic in exchange for being able to offer a DNS resolver on the memorable IPs'