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Bittorent Slowdown

  • 29-11-2005 8:12pm
    #1
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭


    For all of you wondering whats up with slowdowns, or not getting any connections to a tracker, for your *Linux distro*, it seems one of the main trackers has been under a DDOS attack.

    http://www.suprnova.org/?op=showLong&aID=68
    It seems like history is repeating itself. About two years ago, almost every BitTorrent tracker got under attack by DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service). We did not really know who was behind this DDOS attacks, but it was mostly BitTorrent sites attacking each other, because some thought others were too big.

    And just like in old times, the biggest free public tracker Mongo56.org, who just recently broke the record of the biggest free public trackers, is under a huge DDOS attack.

    So far attacks have been only aimed at one port - 3434, but few days ago an attack has been started on another port. "Well, as of the 9th November 2005, an attack has started on another port, at present I don't know which one, nor who is doing this." said Mongo56's admin - English_Man.

    Mongo56's future is now in question. English_Man also said on his blog: "So, we are now faced with a very hard decision, do we close down mongo56.org for good, and let the them win, or we just let the attacks happen, and allow maybe 1 in every 100,000 peers connect."

    A tracker of this size going offline would mean that there would be a lot less torrents available to users. Since Mongo56 is the biggest tracker available and hosts more then 35000 torrents, this would mean that the amount of torrents on some torrent indexing sites would be cut in half.

    For now we can only hope that Mongo56 will find a way to stay online and will keep offering us the free service that they offer now.

    Good luck, Mongo!

    Links:
    Mongo56.org
    Mongo56.org Admin Blog
    What is DDOS - Wikipedia.org

    Discuss the article in our forum


Comments

  • #2
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭radiospan


    The difference between now and two years ago is that torrents can almost run themselves nowadays. The need for trackers is much less now.

    Especially with Azureus' peer exchange and DHT thingy.


  • #3
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    If you've downloaded a torrent with the announce http://mongo56.org:3434/announce, simply open the torrent up with Maketorrent - second tab "View/Edit Torrent" and change the tracker announce to http://mongo56.org:3535/announce, click save - and the torrent will work anyways. This is also doable in clients that support editing of torrents. You can also use the command line; For linux; btreannounce.py http://mongo56.org:3535/announce /path/to/.torrent For windows: python btreannounce.py http://mongo56.org:3535/announce c:\path\to.torrent


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