On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:35 PM, markus reichelt wrote:
* Josef Drexler <[email protected]> wrote:
It would also screw up your stats on that site's account and leak
your passkey.
How could that possibly be true?
Well, that's just what those private tracker sites usually state
about why not to use DHT. It's true!
Yeah, because they clearly wouldn't lie about that. It's certainly
not scare tactics at all!
Quite aside from it being trivial to turn off the DHT tracker on
any torrent, there are no stats sent to DHT announces. Nor any
tracker URLs (which might containt passkeys). There is no valid
technical reason to ban DHT.
Well, then it's prolly not about a technical reason (think legal
one). I'm sure that Mario is not for technical reasons on a private
tracker ;-)
It's still no reason to ban DHT outright. I could see the reasoning
behind not allowing DHT to be used for their torrents, even though
all non-hacked clients will honor the private flag and not use DHT
for private torrents anyway. But making people turn off DHT
altogether is just stupid.
It's like "thou shalt not have any trackers besides mine". DHT is
just like another tracker. Shouldn't they ban people from accessing
other trackers too then?
The only thing that happens over DHT is "I'm downloading this
torrent now" messages, and "who else is downloading this torrent?"
queries. The actual peer handshake is the same whether it's from
DHT or the tracker. The only thing that's transmitted is your IP,
port and the torrent hash.
I've never bothered with DHT --- don't need it. Is the DHT
"handshake" encrypted or transmitted plain as ordinary tracker
announces?
No, it's not encrypted.
--
Josef Drexler
[email protected]
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