atevewr Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 I have been wondering on this for a long time now, can somebody please throw some light on, the inter communication between trackers.I mean to say, for eg. some xyz.org runs its torrent trackers, and they might have 10 or 50 or 100 trackers (or is it possible a single torrent tracker can handle all the clients/peers ??),so how do the trackers intercommunicate, transfer etc. the1. Torrent file information2. Peer informationShould it be time-based(i think so), will the communication between them encrypted ?should the trackers be deployed on a special topology to improve this, might be a multicast tree or is it also possible that they can even have a class D address based on their site's request. (Anycast can also help, similar as root nameservers.)As far as i checked, these are the lookups i found1.Name: tracker.something.orgAddresses: 192.121.86.7, 192.121.86.8, 192.121.86.2, 192.121.86.3 192.121.86.4, 192.121.86.5, 192.121.86.62. Name: abc.otherthing.comAddress: 62.149.24.72Is there any specification on this, which i might have not looked or i might have overseen. There was nothing about it on the Bittorrent Protocol Specification v1.0P.S. Is there any other Bittorent protocol specification?P.P.S. This is a newbie question.Vipin Jain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 There is no such specification that defines inter-tracker communication. If you have control of both servers, you could always implement some proprietary system for sharing data -- share a database, or open some API for one server to get all the data from another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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