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magnetico == DoS on DHT

Open fonic opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Are you aware that your tool in its current state essentially performs a DoS attack on the DHT? DHT was never meant to handle those kind of loads. You should either change the default settings as quickly as possible or stop releasing until you have implemented a fully functional bandwidth limiter.

fonic avatar Aug 07 '19 11:08 fonic

Does it, though? How do you know?

jbruchon avatar Aug 21 '19 12:08 jbruchon

Strange claim; There are numerous other DHT crawlers doing considerably more polling of the BitTorrent DHT, & yet I've never experienced a DHT related issue when using a DHT enabled torrent client.

I will point out that if this is a genuine concern, then having each magneticod instance fetch already crawled torrents from other instances via a dedicated secondary DHT would greatly alleviate any redundant effort. I do find it unfortunate that magneticod doesn't currently have any way of sharing the DB as a secondary DHT.

ProphetZarquon avatar Mar 29 '20 09:03 ProphetZarquon