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UDP Tracker implementation

Open casey opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

The main novel feature of Intermodal is expected to revolve around machine readable metadata manifests which enable a better user experience than existing content networks. I'd like to have sufficient infrastructure to develop features that use new data in manifests, so that everything works as expected end-to-end, and there is a compelling way to see the benefits of Intermodal.

To that end, I'd like to implement a UDP BitTorrrent tracker. Fortunately, the BitTorrent UDP tracker protocol is extremely simple.

Hopefully a basic implementation in async Rust won't require too much optimization to be fast.

After the basic implementation I can start to add features in tandem with manifest development, for example auto-population of an index with torrents announced to the tracker.

  • [ ] connect
  • [ ] announce
  • [ ] scrape
  • [ ] IPv6
  • [ ] update readme, BEP support list
  • [ ] future work: http tracker

casey avatar Mar 29 '20 15:03 casey