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 ...
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- Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:46 pm
- Forum: Mac Support
- Topic: Will a torrent with no trackers find peers? How long does it take?
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- Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:21 am
- Forum: Mac Support
- Topic: Will a torrent with no trackers find peers? How long does it take?
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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 ...
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 ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:06 am
- Forum: Mac Support
- Topic: help with adding first torrent
- Replies: 1
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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 ...
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 ...