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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers

(kianbradley.com)
655 points k-ian | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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Scoundreller ◴[17 Jun 25 22:03 UTC] No.44304453[source]▶
Is there a chance if someone bought suprnova’s domain (if available), which closed in 2004, someone could finish their download if a seed were still active? Does it matter if this was pre-DHT, or does DHT go historical to cover old stuff?
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1. parliament32 ◴[17 Jun 25 22:10 UTC] No.44304518[source]▶
Yes DHT is "historical", in the sense that it doesn't care about when your torrent was created, just the infohash.

However, most torrents created for private trackers have the "private" flag enabled, which excludes them from DHT and PEX and a few other things. You can remove this flag yourself, but you're depending on a seeder doing the same for DHT to work.