Re: Some complement about Tracker-tracker communication

"guanying_wang" <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:47:31 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--- In [email protected], Justin Cormack <justin@s...> wrote:
> > 
> This is a bit surprising to me as the limiting factor, how many
connections
> are we talking about? And doesnt UDP tracker solve this by being
> connectionless? Or are there other problems with udp, or is it just not
> widely used?
> 
> Justin

I personally think it's just not widely deployed. udp tracker
extension is really good for reducing bandwidth consuming.

Actually quite a few flaws in current BitTorrent protocol,  why don't
we just move on to designing a wholly new protocol?


> It doesnt make much difference whether you use Merkle tree or info
hash, 
> they are the same size.
> 

Thank you for pointing out the mistake. I checked BitTorrent protocol
today, and find out the same thing :)

Guanying





 
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