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by 0x4139 4294 days ago
if you mean the client's ip then the answer is NO! it's made especially for the guys that can't download torrents. well, the swarm, the peer connection and everything is implemented from scratch, i could do upload but i'm not
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KnightHawk3 4294 days ago
Can you explain how it gets the content then?
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0x4139 4294 days ago
TL;DR Asks for the packets in the torrent in order and sends them to the client, caching the location of the peers for future use
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0x4139 4294 days ago
Well, it's a torrent client that uses some specific trackers instead of using dht for the swarm, after he gets the peers he requests the packets in order that are send to a stream, that stream is sent to anyone that requests it.
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KnightHawk3 4294 days ago
Do you have a non tl;dr version, this is HN, we do like to read here.

How does it not get the ip?

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