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Kitsoran

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  1. A lot of the problem stems from user stupidity

    DWK' date=' a lot of car accidents stem from drivers stupidity. That's why car manufacturers install air-bags, seat belts, ABS's etc. And it's not always user stupidity because in many cases, the trackers are already in the torrents. Designers have to design stable products for everyone (including drivers, pedestrians, users, trackers) and I don't see a reason to blame the users.[/quote']

    Safety mechs don't make users less stupid, just less prone to dicking up the works.

    The simple truth is, that those public trackers' admins, that now want to operate with UDP only, just want to save themselves the hassle of filtering the legacy TCP traffic out (by older torrents/users), and do it in the clients...

    Filtering isn't free, bandwidth and CPU are still consumed, and that hits the wallet as well.

    actually, I like probing for UDP tracker supports a lot better than the DNS idea. It seems simpler, more secure and more platform independent support.
    Ugly!
    Better error handling on the client side would be a big step forward on reduction of traffic. There are several cases where the retry timer shoulld not be set and the tracker disabled:

    1. The tracker does not exist (http error 404?).

    It's been pointed out to me on bt.org that 404's may be generated by middlemen. Still' date=' I think a higher timeout or not even bothering would be appropriate, especially if [i']plenty of other trackers are functional.

    Beating off a dead horse the original multitracker spec was to (basically) hit up only one tracker at a time, but the "solution" to a large chunk of peers potentially being crap? Hit a tracker in every tier, no matter how many tiers exist!

  2. Old versions leave you vulnerable. My choice would be to toss a lightweight Linux distro on older equipment, though 133MHz could be a bit tough. Now I wanna buy a 133MHz laptop from work just to try it XD

    I wonder if swapping the XP dll with the 2000 DLL is possible, my understanding is 2000 and XP are rather close. Hm..

    Edit: Wonder if my understanding is wrong, or if XP just comes with a lot of something, 'cause w2k is sooooooo fast to install.

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