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calpaterson / thehighseas

a very straightforward bittorrent tracker
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Ghost Seeds #1

Closed shmup closed 11 years ago

shmup commented 11 years ago

I rebooted my VPS three times, and as a result I have three additional seeds. Perhaps they could drop off after x minutes have passed? Er, maybe it just shouldn't list identical IPs. I'm not really sure what a smart solution is.

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calpaterson commented 11 years ago

Hey shmup - thanks for reporting this - each peer uses a "peer id" to identify itself, and trackers use it to track them. Transmission (but not all clients) generate a random peer id when they start up. If the tracker is down when the torrent (/client) is stopped, then client won't send the "i'm stopped" message to the tracker then the tracker won't remove it from the list of peers.

I can't help listing multiple IPs, I'm afraid - sometimes there are multiple peers on a single IP (if they are behind a NAT, for example).

I've just pushed a change the will remove peers when they haven't been seen for 30 minutes, hopefully this solves this problem!

shmup commented 11 years ago

Ah hah, thank you for the explanation. Makes sense.

Your fix will do just fine, and I will close this issue. Thanks!