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Resurrecting a dead Torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers

Wednesday June 18, 2025. 09:20 PM , from OS News
Kian Bradley was downloading something using BitTorrent, and noticed that quite a few trackers were dead.

Most of the trackers were totally dead. Either the hosts were down or the domains weren’t being used.

That got me thinking. What if I picked up one of these dead domains? How many clients would try to connect?
Kian Bradley

It turns out the answer is a lot.
Read more at OS News
https://www.osnews.com/story/142602/resurrecting-a-dead-torrent-tracker-and-finding-3-million-peers/

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