Cetaphil Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 A friend of mine missed an episode of Dexter, so I was trying to send him a copy of Dexter by the way of a private Torrent. We couldn't get it to work every time I check marked "private torrent" so on the next try, i unchecked it and it worked. However, i started seeing 800 peers which was strange because my friend was the only person I sent the torrent file too. What just happened and how was I connected to 800 peers? Was my IPaddress exposed to potentially 800 people because i didn't check mark private tracker? How was it possible that I saw 800 peers? The peers were not downloading from me but rather sporadically connecting to me once in a while as if I was really on a different tracker.These are the steps i took to create a new torrent. I took the movie and placed it in an isolated file. Then i opened uttorent, clicked file, clicked create new torrent, entered my tracker with my ipaddress and my ports, unchecked Private Torrent, and created the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetaphil Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 What I'm trying to figure out is, does the 800 people have my ipaddress as the tracker or did we somehow connect to the original tracker that I downloaded the movie from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetaphil Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 The peers were coming from DHT if that helps anyone. What is DHT and how does it relate to the torrent i sent my friend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkoop Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Basically you were connecting to peers because DHT was enabled which means you were connecting to the same torrent that was distributed on public tracker sites.When you enabled the private flag all that does is disable DHT,PEX and Local Discovery so the only way someone can connect to the file is from a tracker that has that hash in there index. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkoop Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 and to answer your question, yes your IP is exposed but don't worry barely anyone cares about your IP. :cool:If you don't want your home IP being exposed in the peer column suggest getting a VPN or a seedbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetaphil Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I was behind a VPN but I thought sending a file to 1 person wouldn't require me to be connected to 800 peers, so it was off. That scared me. Thanks for answering my question though. I thought utorrent some how mass distributed my torrent that had my tracker in it to 800 people, that was why I was worried. If we were all connected to the public tracker then that's not such a big deal to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexer Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Your nick can make more harm to you then your IP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cetaphil Posted December 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Why? It's just lotion! It's the brand recommended and by most pharmacist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frexer Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Why? It's just lotion! It's the brand recommended and by most pharmacist.Well IP is not a static IP so say that is you either. The supplier of your network sending out a range of different IPv4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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