So far I understand this about Bittorrent-
1) A host has the original file and splits it into several tiny parts among people who want the full file
2) One beauty of the protocol is there are no servers who serve the entire file to a given client...this makes the original file provider "annonymous"
3) If one client another user is getting part of a file of logs off, the user can "magically" find another client with the same part of the file to "serve" it to them (how on earth does this work?)
It seems to me any client, who downloads the full file by grabbing several fragments and re-assembling them, must get location for the fragments, of of another client that knows where the fragments are, from some type of server(s) as listed in a file...making it not 100% annonymous.
How does Bittorrent handle the "node finding", "node recovering" process?
2007-03-08
08:12:26
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