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  • The article neglects to define "DHT" before using it.
  • old paper
  • I saw mention of Sybil's, hasn't this been patched effectively making techniques of quick discovery though many DHT nodes much more expensive and slower.

    You would need a unique IP to overcome this per n nodes. That could be tens of thousands of IPs.

  • (2010)
  • Crawling has been somewhat simplified with BEP 51

    https://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0051.html

  • 2010. I remember those times. I was doing these things for science in 2008. Performance-wise, PEX was much faster than DHT. At least, in my setting.

    This year, I was giving it as an assignment to students. Does not take much time with LLMs.

  • Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.
    by hdgr

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