Bolt_Gundam510 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 by ErnestoThe Pirate Bay is without a doubt the most popular BitTorrent tracker. Unfortunately their current tracker system is not performing as it used to and has reached its effective limit. The TPB team is currently working on a more efficient Open Source tracker system that, among other things, will guarantee better protection against anti-piracy outfits.Some of you might have noticed that the Pirate Bay trackers were down for a couple of hours today. The reason for the downtime is not related to an anti-piracy organization this time, on the contrary. TPB has moved its servers to a new datacenter and added some extra servers to their already pretty impressive server lineup. The tracker currently runs on 12 servers, and 4 brand new ones will be added later today.Adding new servers is not the only reason for the move of course. The new datacenter has better routers which handle their requirements better. It allows TPB to install better protection against DDoS attacks and nullrouting the spam-nets from anti-piracy organizations.However, a complete overhaul of the current tracker system is needed to ensure the future effectiveness of the tracker and to ensure protection against spammers and fake torrents. According to the tracker design page, this new tracker will be capable of blocking and/or logging known p2p vandals such as MediaDefender, BayTSP, MediaSentry and EZ2net. The new tracker will ensure the privacy of its users and is designed to be as efficient as possible, meaning more peers with less bandwidth. TiAMO, one of the developers of the new tracker system told TorrentFreak that they are still looking for skilled coders who want to join the Open Source project and help the BitTorrent community. If you think you are the guy, let him know.Source: Torrent Freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 More details can be found @torrentfreak:http://://torrentfreak.com/tpb-is-developing-...tracker-071001/They also link to site laying out the design of a new tracker software:http://securep2p.net/index.php/Tracker_DesignThe mainpage might also be of interest:http://securep2p.net/index.php/Main_Pageinfo by halo_2 in TPB blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 thanks for the info bolt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cer0 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 It says it will not include ratio tracking. So I am guessing this will not be used by many private servers. I do know that there are some super private sites that do not keep track of ratio, but there are very few that don't. Or did I read wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Godfather Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 It says it will not include ratio tracking. So I am guessing this will not be used by many private servers. I do know that there are some super private sites that do not keep track of ratio, but there are very few that don't. Or did I read wrong? I think You are going to find out that with the development of higher tech data centers like TPB, ratio tracking with start to fade out. Lower overall bandwidth is a big help. I could be wrong though CerO, Lord knows I've been wrong before!! :wacko: The GodFather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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