[CentOS] Trackerless torrents

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Dec 20 18:34:01 UTC 2007


>> when the CentOS tracker was down, I fired up uTorrent on a Windows box 
>> w/ the 5.1 i386 dvd  torrent, and it managed to find a few dozen peers 
>> in a few minutes...
> Still blissful (ignorance is ...), hit me with a clue bat if I'm way off
> base here.
>
> Now, that makes sense (IIUC the implications of all I've read and what
> y'all have posted). You had already been successfully connected and
> acquired the DHT during previous sessions. I can guess that this would
> be used in place of an (un?)available tracker.
>   


last thing I'd torrented off centos was 5.0 prior to this...    Not sure 
that would have any impact on hooking up with DHT on a different torrent 
(but, I freely admit, I haven't the vaguest clue how the DHT actually 
hooks up and finds the initial peers)



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