Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by thinkmcfly » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 12:41 PM UTC

I think you should. From my understanding, use of DHT is already dead in the eyes of most torrenters

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by storrgie » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 12:43 PM UTC

icpmoles wrote: post #17

Is it basically btdig.com ?

An advantage here would be people self hosting their own based on this project.

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by dhaavi » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 12:47 PM UTC

synctext wrote: post #15

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Tribler is an interesting project, but not directly comparable to what the OP is trying to achieve.

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by pharmakom » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 12:47 PM UTC

synctext wrote: post #15

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Who is funding it and why?

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by Ysx » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 12:50 PM UTC

seqastian wrote: post #11

qualudeheart wrote: post #6

Which evil usages are you concerned about? I think it would be very useful for the public.

copyright holder bots

DHT has existed for 17 years - the cat's out of the bag. The anti-piracy companies have built their own crawlers.

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by encryptluks2 » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 12:57 PM UTC

icpmoles wrote: post #17

Is it basically btdig.com ?

Btdig is awesome. If this is like an open source version in Go then that is a huge contribution.

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by the8472 » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

Having seen other indexers before I suspect your implementation isn't spec-compliant or well-behaved (perhaps spoofing node-IDs? causing more traffic than necessary?)

If you want to build an indexer you should write a normal implementation and then use http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0051.html

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by peterkelly » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 1:11 PM UTC

synctext wrote: post #15

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OP said they already have a working system. How well it works remains to be seen, until it's publicly available.

On what basis do you assume he/she has not succeeded without even having seen their work?

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by have_faith » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 1:14 PM UTC

synctext wrote: post #15

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> We are building a micro-economy without banks, without advertisers, and without any government

But with government funding?

Re: Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

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Post by synctext » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 1:16 PM UTC

dhaavi wrote: post #23

synctext wrote: post #15

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Tribler is an interesting project, but not directly comparable to what the OP is trying to achieve.

indeed, bit different. lots of people worked in this field and made these tools. Around 2014 the state of the art was 20k DHT responses per second, see '100 million DHT replies'. https://doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2014.6934318