hermanm Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 [Ultima: Split from this thread.]Hi, would there be any cross-contamination between trackers? Say one is public and the other private, but the infohash is exactly the same (e.g. DHT is not allowed). By cross-contamination, I mean, can a peer from a public tracker suck bandwidth from a private tracker or vice versa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Any peer with the tracker URLs and therefore being on the swarm will be able to connect to other peers on the swarm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Not if the torrent and tracker are private. PEX wouldn't work on private torrents either. So to answer the question, if the torrent client properly respects the private flag, and no other means of injecting peers is available (DHT, PEX, LPD, manual adding), then swarms probably wouldn't be bridged (though they can run in parallel). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Well, the torrent originally was from a private tracker, but I put it on a public tracker. The public torrent only has the url for the public tracker. But to keep from having two torrents running, I have both URLs on my client. Is there still a chance of cross-contamination? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 I think my post answers the question quite sufficiently... If the tracker and torrent are private, and the client respects private torrents (µTorrent does), and peers in the swarm don't manually inject peers, then swarms won't be bridged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 If I have multiple trackers for a torrent, is there a way to know what tracker a particular peer originated from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 No./me feels like this is some extension of the discussion he was having on IRC a few hours ago[Merged] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sighkick Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Wow - well that's proven my point that I do ask a good question when I put my mind to it :-)It's great to see intelligent debate on a subject, especially when we all agree that µTorrent is the best out there.Besides, how many people remember Alt+0181 [ µ ] as well as their own phone number ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Thanks for clarifying Ultima. You originally said "probably wouldn't" which made think there was some possibility. But your second reply of "won't be bridged" is more reassuring! Okay, another question - could a peer in the swarm that does not respect the private flag (e.g. Bitcomet) cause peers to be bridged?I ask because on a private tracker, my download transfer amount went from 250GB to 1 TB in one day. [edit: added ? about BitComet] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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