BitTorrent Tracker Question

[Jorge]

How do I find out what tracker software a bittorrent tracker site is using?

[Jorge]

Or does anyone know of a link where it lists out what trackers sites like ISOHUNT.com cache?

[DigitalJunkie]

I don't know exactly what you need, but this tracker software is free!

TrackerBT: http://www.alhem.net/project/trackerbt/

[zarquon]

As far as i know, all of the main private trackers use modified versions of the torrentbits source which is now freely available under the gpl license.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~zjuul/

[Jorge]

Thanks, but what i am looking for is a large list of announcement URLS that trackers use.

I wonder if there is a place or program that can get a list of available bittorrent trackers.

[DigitalJunkie]

I believe The Minder is a program for keeping tracks of trackers on that site!

[Jorge]

Here is the URL for what DJ is talking about: http://www.alhem.net/project/trackerbt/

trackerbt - a distributed bittorrent tracker
BitTorrent is a highly successful distributed file transfer protocol. Some would like to call it a peer-to-peer network, but BitTorrent in itself lacks much of the functionality one would wish of a peer-to-peer network. There is no way to search for content with BitTorrent; search is a big part of other peer-to-peer protocols.

The minder is a small network application for automatic maintenance of peer lists. The application accepts connections from other network entities ("minions") and returns a list of other identitical minions.

When a minion contacts the minder, the minion supplies its type, network port and address, and its unique node identification.

The framework for building a minion is included in the C++ Sockets Library. The framework consists of classes representing connections between minion-minder and minion-minion, and also a controller class for them both.

The minder itself is also built with the C++ Sockets Library as its foundation.

[Dark Messenger]

Thanks, but what i am looking for is a large list of announcement URLS that trackers use.

I wonder if there is a place or program that can get a list of available bittorrent trackers.

Assuming you want a list of public ones....download a torrent from a public site....open it with utorrent and click on advanced tab...look under trackers and copy paste what u see there..repeat for every other public torrent that interests you.

Public trackers are free to use without uploading the torrent to their site...its form of bandwidth stealing much like hotlinking to images hosted by other sites..but hey as long as the tracker operator doesn't care..why should I?

So essentially you can privately share files among friends keeping it private by simply not uploading the torrent to the tracker site but effectively using their announce url to direct traffic for your torrent.

if u want it private just set the privacy flag when making ur torrent.

afaik there isn't any list of all free public tracker announce url's...i've seen a 2 or 3 posted at most

but not a comprehensive list. This advice is how to compile your own list manually by opening the

torrents for free in utorrent and clicking on the advanced tab and copy/pasting what u see there

under trackers.

If u want to have your own private/public bt site just use the torrentbits sourcecode modify it however

u need. The only requirement is a webserver running mysql and php.

Enjoy.