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Trackerless Torrents, DHT, Peer Exchange and Magnet links

Basically, some article I read on TorrentFreak seems to give me the impression that they’re the best thing since sli- torrents, so I decided to give it a try.

I made a torrent of a small file (< 256 KiB) with uTorrent 1.8.4 and used TorrentSpy to extract the infohash and plugged it into a magnet URI as follows.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7e1e4c13d8726730a1982b877c4a310908789b0d (By the way, feel free to (try to) download that to help my testing)

I set uTorrent to seed that torrent and I added the magnet URI to uTorrent on my server.

Currently (30 minutes later), my home laptop and my server have yet to find each other over DHT.

FAIL!

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One Response to “Trackerless Torrents, DHT, Peer Exchange and Magnet links”

  1. MasterCJ says:
    November 20, 2009 at 23:25:50

    Sucks to be you, worked for me in about 30 seconds.

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