Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.
I've had one running for over a year now, it's replaced my usage of regular torrent sites completely, there is a lot of junk, and it gets stale, but it's still a better experience than most of the public trackers out there IMO
I built one with a nice TUI to run on a VPS so I can try and find rare magazine torrents, but Hetzner were upset about it. I need to find it a new home. It was a very good citizen, but it still raised too many flags.
Distributed hash table - ButTorrent extension for discovering torrents' seeders by advertising their hash across known peers. Contrary to traditional way of asking a known tracker for peers of that torrent.
Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.
I've had one running for over a year now, it's replaced my usage of regular torrent sites completely, there is a lot of junk, and it gets stale, but it's still a better experience than most of the public trackers out there IMO
Are you running it at home?
I built one with a nice TUI to run on a VPS so I can try and find rare magazine torrents, but Hetzner were upset about it. I need to find it a new home. It was a very good citizen, but it still raised too many flags.
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I disabled mine because it was constantly writing to my SSD.
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2010. I remember those times. I was doing these things for science in 2008. Performance-wise, PEX was much faster than DHT. At least, in my setting.
This year, I was giving it as an assignment to students. Does not take much time with LLMs.
The article neglects to define "DHT" before using it.
Distributed hash table - ButTorrent extension for discovering torrents' seeders by advertising their hash across known peers. Contrary to traditional way of asking a known tracker for peers of that torrent.
https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html
old paper
(2010)