Torrent vs. Magnet ; DHT ? On other torrent sites
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Gaytorrent.ru was the first time I used torrents, but now I am trying out some other torrent site for files we don't have here.
On these other sites I am offered to download the torrent or Magnet. I tried magnet once as an experiment and it seemed to work
just like a torrent. So, I don't understand the choice. If someone can point me to information on this it would be appreciated.Thanks
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Magnet links, basically contain the torrent hash, using this your client connects directly to the peer to download the .torrent file (rather than the site) and then starts downloading the content.
-> This is useful if the hosting site goes down and the user can't get the torrent file from the site.This is just a brief non-technical explanation of what i know…im sure there is more depth to it though.
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your reply was rather technical
.. just to add: yes, "magnet" system is using DHT for finding peers with the same torrent hash. -
and once again: I can only warn using any kind of functions which share your torrent files - you can easily ruin your ratio with that function because you offer your account for others to use!!!
If you wanna do so: Please don't come and complain on our help desk or to our staff team that your ratio is continuously going down instead of up
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depending on what client is used. normally, DHT can't ruin anyone's ratio at all, yet it's totally useless for private trackers in general, since it only provides nothing else but list of peers. uTorrent, for instance, needs the exact torrent-file hashes so that it can take some avail from DHT. as long as every user has his own passkey which is "stamped" into his torrents, these torrents differ from other torrents, hence DHT can't "find" them.
much more dangerous {and possibly harmful} is the function of "sharing torrents" implemented in some clients. this is also useful only, if both sides use the same client. however, it may reveal your passkey.
as for this tracker, i think, i already "discovered" the "security hole" alleged by some users. in fact it's no "security hole" but the users' mistake, because of misunderstanding some tracker facilities. if you aren't sure what some of them are about, better safe than sorry and post your querry. i can't unveil the details in public, since many greedy downloaders might misuse this information for their purpose at the expense of the unaware users.
