Archive for December, 2007
The IPv6 situation
Friday, December 28th, 2007If you haven’t spent the last decade behind a C64 you may have noticed a HugeNewThing™ called IPv6 is coming. There still are some issues that prevent its wide spread use. No consumer DSL has it. Most people wouldn’t even care what *IPv4* is. However, bittorrent has been designed to work with IPv6 out of [...]
Going social
Friday, December 28th, 2007This topic is only for our German readers, sorry ’bout that. Wir sind nun auch audio-visuell in Erscheinung getreten und haben unser opentracker-Projekt und Bittorrent im Allgemeinen in einem Chaos Radio Express mit Tim und einem Talk über opentracker auf dem 24C3 vorgestellt. Wenn es das Video gibt, reichen wir den Link nach. Update: So [...]
Review-A-Tracker-Team
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Six days ago – on December 5th – opentracker celebrated its first birthday, just two days before officially becoming the tracker handling most tracker requests on earth. During that year openracker already handled several billions http connections in what can only be described as the hardest fuzzing attack ever done to a software (: However, [...]
On fake-torrents
Sunday, December 9th, 2007From a recent mail we received: im sick of seeing your tracker host malicious files. im sick of seeing your tracker on the top pages of indexing sites. you are a disgrace. seeing your tracker on any torrent means to the non-nub BT community that it contains malicious files. you allow your uploaders to prey [...]
Opentracker running at ThePirateBay
Friday, December 7th, 2007Today ThePirateBay switched the last tracker (tracker.prq.to) to opentracker. With the migration of open.tracker.thepiratebay.org to opentracker three weeks ago, now all their Bittorrent Tracker are running with our software (as you can see on their about page), Arrr! Of course you can take a look at the new tracker (tracker.prq.to: trackerstats-tpb145 to tpb149, open.tracker.thepiratebay.org: trackerstats-tpb138 [...]