←back to thread

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: 0.21s | source
Show context
jldugger ◴[17 Jun 25 20:22 UTC] No.44303516[source]▶
In other words, you can DDoS any ip for the cost of registering a domain and publishing a specific DNS record.
replies(4): >>44304121 #>>44304759 #>>44306797 #>>44310896 #
57473m3n7Fur7h3 ◴[17 Jun 25 21:24 UTC] No.44304121[source]▶
Is it really going to be all that bad?

The BitTorrent clients I’ve used all seemed pretty polite, backing off for like 60s at least for each tracker they can’t connect to.

If you buy one of the dead tracker domains and point it at an IP of someone else, but their services aren’t even listening on the port client wants to connect to (and don’t speak BitTorrent even if the port happened to coincide), I can’t imagine that even with a million BitTorrent clients wanting to connect it would really be all that much of a problem.

replies(3): >>44304365 #>>44305978 #>>44308022 #
jldugger ◴[18 Jun 25 01:57 UTC] No.44305978[source]▶
It can be: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/01/chinese-bittorrent-the-gift...
replies(1): >>44307303 #
globular-toast ◴[18 Jun 25 06:56 UTC] No.44307303[source]▶
Careful. This guy doesn't like HN and you'll get a picture of a testicle if you click.
replies(4): >>44309231 #>>44309586 #>>44309966 #>>44311330 #
graealex ◴[18 Jun 25 14:00 UTC] No.44309966[source]▶
I do like the commitment of registering a whole domain for no other purpose as to be able to spam a single picture, though.
replies(1): >>44325903 #
1. 57473m3n7Fur7h3 ◴[20 Jun 25 09:13 UTC] No.44325903[source]▶
Everyone else that visits the site from other places get the actual content and not the testicle. So it’s not just that one image. That only shows up when your referrer is HN.