Any know IP of iknowwhatyoudownload.com for block on our ASN?

jamespeach

Nothing shows up for me. Was expecting alot of linux isos.

stefeman

@yoursunny said:

@itzaname said:

@stefeman said:

I host a similar website for fun with a bit over 8 million records currently.

You would have following stuff generally:

1. Webservers for the website and DB
2. Several crawlers that independently track public trackers and check magnets/swarms for IPs and sort them based on torrent hash and date/time seen.

Generally those belonging to 2. are hidden and can be swapped at will.

In short, you won't be finding out since we can even do it from a VPS which you sell yourself.

Tell your users to not use public trackers and magnet links/peer exchange and we (and the others) won't be able to track you.

I mean someone could block all your servers and it still wouldn't matter as you don't actually need to make a connection to find their IP address from the tracker or DHT/PEX.

An attacker can report IP addresses they do not control into the tracker or DHT.
To positively confirm an IP address is indeed participating in a torrent, the detection service needs to connect to this IP address and receive some response that confirms it knows about the torrent hash.

As far as I know about the unreleased project which I host, stuff like this is accounted for and checked with another logic to ensure validity.

If I had to guess, it will actually connect the peer and request chunks from it.

So the solution would be to block the IP of the crawler, but public trackers don't care about such things. Private trackers do have ratio and sanity checks, so using such a crawler would get you almost instantly banned.