vaporware
January 2nd, 2005, 12:04 PM
...searching with multiple trackers
With an enormous amount of time on my hands and a 900MB file at 99.7% completion I started experimenting with Trackers. The original Tracker responded on the mentioned file that it could no longer be found, so I immediately went on a hunt for other Trackers. The difficulty in this is there is not one true process for finding another source for this torrent.
In my search I listed over 120 Trackers that have been currently active for at least a 7 day period and have more than 200 torrents. I use multiple BT Clients, and my thought was to configure ALL of these Trackers into a BT Client so that I could find the last 0.3% of that torrent I was downloading and to speed up the finding and downloading of sources for future torrents. Obviously there are BIG flaws in this plan of mine, but hey-I gotta have some fun with this.
I configured the BitComet.xml of my BitComet client to include all of these trackers for that incomplete torrent, and as you can guess 99% of these responded with an 'unregistered torrent' error, although I did find 3 Trackers that allowed access. With this configuration my BitComet client will then search all of these Trackers and Download\Upload any correct data that it finds. At least, that's the theory......
Trackers come and go so obviously this is a procedure that would become an incredible P-I-T-A quickly. In searching for software that has been written I have found only a few Utilities that search for torrents and there are many BT Clients that have a torrent search function as well. I have yet to find any software that pulls together multiple Trackers in searching for torrents and none that search based upon a HASH.
I am finishing my rambling and I'm hoping others who read this can point my focus in the right direction. Of course those of you that run Trackers don't want every BT Client hitting your server for torrents that aren't posted. I certainly hope I have sparked someone's interest in creating a Search tool that can facilitate the scenario I have listed here.
vaporware
With an enormous amount of time on my hands and a 900MB file at 99.7% completion I started experimenting with Trackers. The original Tracker responded on the mentioned file that it could no longer be found, so I immediately went on a hunt for other Trackers. The difficulty in this is there is not one true process for finding another source for this torrent.
In my search I listed over 120 Trackers that have been currently active for at least a 7 day period and have more than 200 torrents. I use multiple BT Clients, and my thought was to configure ALL of these Trackers into a BT Client so that I could find the last 0.3% of that torrent I was downloading and to speed up the finding and downloading of sources for future torrents. Obviously there are BIG flaws in this plan of mine, but hey-I gotta have some fun with this.
I configured the BitComet.xml of my BitComet client to include all of these trackers for that incomplete torrent, and as you can guess 99% of these responded with an 'unregistered torrent' error, although I did find 3 Trackers that allowed access. With this configuration my BitComet client will then search all of these Trackers and Download\Upload any correct data that it finds. At least, that's the theory......
Trackers come and go so obviously this is a procedure that would become an incredible P-I-T-A quickly. In searching for software that has been written I have found only a few Utilities that search for torrents and there are many BT Clients that have a torrent search function as well. I have yet to find any software that pulls together multiple Trackers in searching for torrents and none that search based upon a HASH.
I am finishing my rambling and I'm hoping others who read this can point my focus in the right direction. Of course those of you that run Trackers don't want every BT Client hitting your server for torrents that aren't posted. I certainly hope I have sparked someone's interest in creating a Search tool that can facilitate the scenario I have listed here.
vaporware