Questions tagged [peer-exchange]
3 questions
2
votes
1 answer
Where/what is the Peer Exchange (PEX) protocol specification for BitTorrent?
There's a note that BEP 11 is the pending draft for PEX. However this was never published, and there's no official specification that I can find.
Matt Joiner
- 112,946
- 110
- 377
- 526
0
votes
1 answer
Are PEX messages exchanged between 2 Seeds
I have a fair knowledge of BitTorrent protocol. One questions has been bugging me for a while.
Always a seeding client immediately disconnects from another seed. Got a couple of questions there.
Is the disconnect made on the local side / remote…
Siva R
- 3
- 2
0
votes
2 answers
BitTorrent peers with zero ports
Occasionally trackers, DHT nodes, and PEX peers offer peer addresses with a port of 0. What does this mean? In the context of submitting one's own port to a tracker, or in DHT, sending a port of 0 means that the recipient should use the sender's…
Matt Joiner
- 112,946
- 110
- 377
- 526