[CentOS] Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

[Kai Schaetzl]

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William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:59:17 -0500:

> AFAICT now, at lease an initial successful connection with a tracker,

You mean for you own client? No. I have successfully downloaded files  
with DHT in the past that weren't available via tracker anymore or the 
tracker didn't respond (and where the P2P sites showed "0/0 
seeders/leechers). The file just needs to have "some" distribution, so it 
eventually gets found in the DHT client cloud.

If you mean that in general, yes, there have to be a few clients initially 
that can connect to a tracker because finding that one client that starts 
the seeding without a tracker may take a long time or fail.


Kai

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