Tracker-hub implementation?
"Adam Lyttle" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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This is basically a theory that came to me while I was looking over
the Bittorrent protocol. The idea is to be able to specify a
'tracker-hub' or 'tracker-hubs' for BitTorrent clients. These hubs
would be like the general trackers that we see now, however they would
be configured to handle and categorize any info_hash. Their function
would be to serve as a backup or mirror to the tracker(s) specified in
the torrent file.
The tracker-hubs would be used as an additional source of peer ip's
and as a backup source if the main tracker goes down or offline. This
would effectively bring the BitTorrent protocol one step closer to a
truely decentralised peer-to-peer network.
Implementing a feature like this would be relatively easy, but to
truely get the most out of it some of the more popular BitTorrent
clients would have to support it.
What do you think?
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