Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]

(usenix.org)

29 points | by dgellow 3 days ago

3 comments

  • hdgr 1 hour ago
    Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.
    • NegativeLatency 58 minutes ago
      I've had one running for over a year now, it's replaced my usage of regular torrent sites completely, there is a lot of junk, and it gets stale, but it's still a better experience than most of the public trackers out there IMO
      • qingcharles 38 minutes ago
        Are you running it at home?

        I built one with a nice TUI to run on a VPS so I can try and find rare magazine torrents, but Hetzner were upset about it. I need to find it a new home. It was a very good citizen, but it still raised too many flags.

        • NoMoreNicksLeft 16 minutes ago
          Which magazines?
        • k4rli 30 minutes ago
          Runs fine at home. I've indexed 20M+ torrents in last few months running it during the day. With Prowlarr (or similar) it could easily replace other indexers.
      • drdexebtjl 38 minutes ago
        I disabled mine because it was constantly writing to my SSD.
        • felooboolooomba 28 minutes ago
          I solved it by storing the data on /dev/null
  • gritzko 21 minutes ago
    2010. I remember those times. I was doing these things for science in 2008. Performance-wise, PEX was much faster than DHT. At least, in my setting.

    This year, I was giving it as an assignment to students. Does not take much time with LLMs.

  • hackingonempty 1 hour ago
    (2010)