arvidn
Non-existent peers in DHT
Hello, I noticed that sometimes non-existent IPs and ports end up in the peer list in DHT. How can this happen? Is it possible to do this using libtorrent?
Hello, I noticed that sometimes non-existent IPs and ports end up in the peer list in DHT. How can this happen? Is it possible to do this using libtorrent?
What do you mean by "non-existent" IPs? Do you mean invalid IP addresses? If the DHT node runs on the same machine as a node, it's possible to get a 127.0.0.1 IP address from it. I don't believe libtorrent would make that mistake though. If you run on the same local network, you may also end up with a local address in the DHT peer list.
uTorrent has that option to set any text phrase as IP/Hostname to report to tracker.
The DHT doesn't have that option though.
