torrentator Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I created a new torrent to send to a friend. I followed this tutorial:http://www.info.com.ph/~etan/w3pantheon/style/modifiedsbmh.htmlOnce he got the torrent thru his email, he started to download the file from my computer. However, another peer appeared at his end, just like that out of the blue.What happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Um... what's that tutorial have to do with anything? O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aangen Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 He's probably just talking about the tutorial to indicate some thought and effort went into creating the torrent. Surprised you can't make that connection.Did the mystery peer come in via DHT? If you have DHT enabled on a torrent can others find said torrent somewhere? Case in point, µTorrent on my end says DHT: 256 peers even though I have less than 25 seeds/leechers on my active torrents. Who are these 256 DHT peers and what can or can't they do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 DHT is a completely separate network, which is why you see you're connected to those DHT peers. It's got nothing to do with your torrents and the number of peers on said torrents. And you cannot share torrents through Mainline DHT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Sounds more than likely that your friend changed IPs. Does he have a dynamic IP? (Well, not likely, but more likely than the alternative..)It's also possible that if you sent him a popular file with the EXACT same contents as a publicly-available torrent (ie. same hash) that a DHT peer could have got on, but it seems unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentator Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Actually, the two IPs resolved to two different addresses. Both addresses was from my ISP, with two different locations specified in it (ie. Cleveland.isp.something, Chicago.isp.something)I was thinking DHT, but, he's the only one that got the .torrent file. And the tutorial was just to show that I didn't use a public tracker, that I seeded the torrent to him only. He was getting significant bandwidth from the other connection too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aangen Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 I might actually know what that is. There is a company that makes a device that "caches" bit torrents to minimize bandwidth use. http://www.cachelogic.com/products/index.phpFrom what I read (some time ago) the main backbone providers are putting these things in place to minimize the effects of P2P traffic. This server sniffs packets and when it finds a bit torrent it "jumps on" so that any other users on the network get the files from cache instead of dragging them over the net multiple times. "The Cachepliance identifies files by hash ID and serves cached P2P content from on-network."That MAY be what you encountered.This page:http://www.cachelogic.com/products/rationale.phpExplains the reason why they created these servers. Apparently P2P traffic is now over 80% of all Internet traffic.The device sounds kewl, I want my ISP to get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentator Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 That could very well be it. My torrent was taken from another torrent site anyways. All I wanted to do was to send it to him. The hash / file size must have matched to something else for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vze4x2ge Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 NewbieNeed help to uninstall utorrent.Step by step instructionsnot understanding how to use itThank Youvze4x2ge@optonline.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Click once on uTorrent.exe, hit delete, poke Yes with the mouse button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Yes, you figured out how to post here, but clearly missed the rules, the FAQ and everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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