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Understanding the Bittorrent Protocol

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networking

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bittorrent

I am looking for some books, tutorial sites .

I want to understand how Bittorrent protocol works and later to implement my own tracker .

I don't have a big knowledge in network protocols so I am looking for a newbie stuff .

Have seen following posts but they didn't helped me with my issue :

A BitTorrent client completely written in C#?

Implementing Bittorrent Protocol

Looking for some good books/resources on understanding Bittorrent?

Thanks for help .

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Night Walker Avatar asked Dec 24 '09 10:12

Night Walker

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The BitTorrent specification is quite easy reading (relatively speaking):

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html

The wikipedia page is also surprisingly comprehensive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

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skaffman Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 12:10

skaffman

BitTornado has a tracker implementation and it's written in Python, which is easy to read. It's nice to start from something working and then you can try to understand the code based on the protocol. BitTornado is based on original version that Bram Cohen implemented. Tracker is implemented in BitTornado.BT1.track.py

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goododd Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 11:10

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