Re: Trackerless torrents (was: Can't connect to torrent tracker)

["William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 19:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
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> William L. Maltby wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:59:17 -0500:
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> > 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
> 

I've reached the same conclusion. See another of my later posts.

-- 
Bill

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