Afaiu if you have a web server, you can web-seed from it, no need for trackers. Archive.org has that for every upload, although they also have a tracker of their own.
Afaiu if you have a web server, you can web-seed from it, no need for trackers. Archive.org has that for every upload, although they also have a tracker of their own.
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I think you still need a tracker to discover peers. So unless it’s only a Web download (which would make this whole effort stupid), peers still need to be able to find each other.
Though my understanding of BT’s P2P protocol is pretty weak so I might be running on false assumptions.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Afaiu DHT works for any torrent. It’s not as quick as a tracker, but it works. I download some torrents by exclusively using the DHT.
treadful@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Well, this is why people don’t use BT more for their FLOSS downloads.
I’ll do some more digging just because I’m curious, but without resources to show how people can leverage this for Web downloads most are not going to make the effort for little to no benefit.