Quote from: Carlton Banks on April 08, 2020, 10:23:46 AM

Quote from: gmaxwell on April 04, 2020, 02:37:12 PM

Back in 2011 (or 2012? I forget) we tried doing releases with trackerless torrents and found that they essentially didn't work. The trackerless stuff works well enough to make DOS attacking trackers somewhat ineffective for extremely popular torrents, but for niche torrents they mostly didn't work at all (partially due to the background DDOS level against the bittorrent DHT stuff). I don't think anything has changed regarding this.

try it. I found it worked for me, and always has done. even LTS bugfix releases like 0.17.2 downloaded for me using only DHT peers, and my own bittorrent peer typically serves a few hundred MB to other peers. Seeding ratio for the LTS releases tends to be < 1.0 however (although maybe that's just a representation of how popular those releases are)

could it be that implementations of bittorrent's DHT design have improved since 2011-12? not sure, but I've been using a DHT trawler recently to discover torrents from the DHT, and the daemon typically finds 40,000-60,000 per day (rate limited to 20 Mbit/s using a wonderful linux utility called Traffic Control, which I understand you're familiar with Wink

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