Re: KEY tracker extension
John Hoffman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.bit-torrent.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The concept behind the "key" extension in the tracker announce is very
simple. The peer chooses it randomly and will send the same value with
each announce. This allows the tracker to verify the contactee is the
same peer even if its IP has changed, and lets the tracker update that
information.
lazy_lightning_99 wrote:
>Is there some documentation around the KEY protocol extension? I'm
>assuming this is another level of identification for peers behind NAT.
>
>I tried searching this list, but quite frankly I can't think of
>anything more useless than Yahoo's message search feature.
>
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