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by JDLH
Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:46 pm
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: Will a torrent with no trackers find peers? How long does it take?
Replies: 2
Views: 14767

Re: Will a torrent with no trackers find peers? How long does it take?

I have learned a bit more about how long a torrent might take to find peers.

My Transmission 2.94 instance on Mac OS X 10.11 is clearly talking to peers. I ran Wireshark to capture network traffic to and from Transmission's TCP and UPD ports. There is plenty of UDP traffic between that part and ...
by JDLH
Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:21 am
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: Will a torrent with no trackers find peers? How long does it take?
Replies: 2
Views: 14767

Will a torrent with no trackers find peers? How long does it take?

Hello, all,

I have some public-domain content, a movie , which I would like to distribute via the bittorrent protocol. I created a torrent file with no trackers in it. I have the impression that Transmission uses a distributed hash table (DHT) and peer exchange (PEX) to find peers, even without any ...
by JDLH
Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:06 am
Forum: Mac Support
Topic: help with adding first torrent
Replies: 1
Views: 3731

Re: help with adding first torrent

Hello, Theo:

I found your query because I am trying to do the same thing as you: create a torrent of files I have, to share with others.

In an earlier post, you asked what a tracker was. A tracker is a website which helps torrent peers find each other and start to exchange data. 10 years ago, it ...