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Obscure torrent: What seems like only seeder only connects for about a second, updating my "last seen complete" every 5 minutes or so, without transferring any substantial data. Thoughts? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Sorry if this is a rookie question, but most of what I've downloaded over the last decade was nowhere near this obscure. I'd like to think this community could benefit from a corpus of Q and A, if this breaks rule 4, I'll gracefully accept if this post is removed.

I am downloading through Mullvad, which I know doesn't let you forward your ports. So I can appreciate that that seeder's settings and mine might not be super compatible.

Is there any flag or anything I can do to let the seeder connect at all, besides finding some other way to exit with port forwarding. Seedbox is on my horizon, but it is far out there.

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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

A lot of trackers will also plant fake IPs in their swarms for plausible deniability. If the peers you're referring to aren't giving you any data at all, they're probably just fake IPs planted by the tracker.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    The interesting thing is that the flags that show during these brief connections show the peer is from DHT/PeX, not from the dozen general purpose trackers I slapped on there. If I got this from a public tracker, I’d think your explanation was the best one, but this makes it more mysterious.

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