Comment by the8472 on Does torrent seeding "access" files?
that's most likely implementation-specific. A client might access the files on startup, on scheduling the torrent or only when it actually has to upload any data from them.
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to convert .torrent file into magnet link?
transmission-show might get you the infohash (haven't tried it myself), from that you can trivially construct the magnet
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to specify IPv6 link-local bind address in smb.conf?
br0 also has other addresses on which I don't want to provide smb, among them global unicast v6
View ArticleComment by the8472 on lossless concatenation of ogg vorbis files
if you can avoid copyright issues, sample files on which the problem occurs might be helpful
View ArticleComment by the8472 on What is the fastest protocol for downloading files from...
calculate the theoretical limit, test HTTP, see how close you are to the theoretical limit.
View ArticleComment by the8472 on What is the fastest protocol for downloading files from...
bittorrent does provide checksumming
View ArticleComment by the8472 on Is there a way to fully automate torrent seeding...
you can probably cobble this together by combining a torrent client that picks up torrents from a directory with something that downloads torrents from a website, RSS feeds or the dht. you'll also need...
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to prevent disk corruption on Virtualbox
@Ramhound the file in the host was fixed-size, pre-allocated and no snapshots. So as long as flush translates to fsync the data should reliably make it to disk.
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How can this website reidentify me even after deleting...
If you use a whitelist-only cookie policy (i.e. blocking them by default) then sites can't use indexedb, also preventing such tracking
View ArticleComment by the8472 on Is IP trackable if Bittorent is open but torrents...
What do you mean by "VPN open but not running"?
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to specify IPv6 link-local bind address in smb.conf?
I have tried that, it doesn't work for me. I'll update my question.
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to ensure that IPv6 temporary address is the...
KB4088776 is installed but it's still using the permanent address after a day. Definitely not fixed.
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to ensure that IPv6 temporary address is the...
The windows 10 april 2018 update fixed it for me.
View ArticleComment by the8472 on How to specify IPv6 link-local bind address in smb.conf?
Thanks, I changed my router (OpenWRT based) to provide a ULA to the whole network, that also simplified my samba setup.
View ArticleAnswer by the8472 for Torrenting crashes internet connection
Routers contain stateful NATs and firewalls. Which means they keep state for each "connection".Sadly, connection here often also means that every single, normally stateless UDP request-reply exchange...
View ArticleAnswer by the8472 for Why do magnet/torrent links suddenly work when a remote...
This is likely to occur on small swarms - test on some large torrent with many peers to get a comparison point.It generally stems from connectivity problems where at least one party (you or the remote)...
View ArticleAnswer by the8472 for How does Bittorrent work in peers behind Carrier-grade...
There is a difference between "working at all" and "works well". In P2P networks each side of a pair of nodes should be able to initiate a connection and also to accept one initiated by the other...
View ArticleAnswer by the8472 for Is there anything faster than `find . | wc -l` to count...
I have written ffcnt for exactly that purpose. It retrieves the physical offset of directories themselves with the fiemap ioctl and then scheduling the directory traversal in multiple sequential passes...
View ArticleAnswer by the8472 for Is it possible to find a torrent in DHT network without...
However, I have concern if someone can find these torrents using DHT. Is it really possible (without knowing hash)?yesAnd how do search engines like btdigg enumerate DHT torrents? Is it possible to...
View ArticleAnswer by the8472 for Fast compression in 7z format (like zip or gzip)
A very fast compressor is lbzip2 with multithreading, but it cannot be run from tar itself.In gnu tar you can specify which compressor with a flag. Examples: tar -I "zstd -T0" or tar...
View Article
