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<h1><span>Rasterbar Software</span></h1> |
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<h2><span>Software developement and consulting</span></h2> |
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<h1>Mainline DHT extensions</h1> |
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<p>libtorrent implements a few extensions to the Mainline DHT protocol.</p> |
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<h2>get_peers response</h2> |
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<p>libtorrent always responds with <tt class="docutils literal">nodes</tt> to a get_peers request. If it has |
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peers for the specified info-hash, it will return <tt class="docutils literal">values</tt> as well. This is |
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because just because some peer announced to us, doesn't mean that we are |
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among the 8 closest nodes of the info hash. libtorrent also keeps traversing |
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nodes using get_peers until it has found the 8 closest ones, and then announces |
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<h2>forward compatibility</h2> |
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<p>In order to support future DHT messages, any message which is not recognized |
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find node for that target. i.e. it returns nodes. This allows future messages |
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<h2>client identification</h2> |
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<p>In each DHT packet, an extra key is inserted named "v". This is a string |
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describing the client and version used. This can help alot when debugging |
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and finding errors in client implementations. The string is encoded as four |
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characters, two characters describing the client and two characters interpreted |
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as a binary number describing the client version.</p> |
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<p>Currently known clients:</p> |
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<h2>IPv6 support</h2> |
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<p><strong>This extension is superseeded by</strong> <a class="reference external" href="http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0032.html">BEP 32</a>.</p> |
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as a list of strings. Each string represents one contact and is encoded as 20 |
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bytes node-id and then a variable length encoded IP address (6 bytes in IPv4 case |
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and 18 bytes in IPv6 case).</p> |
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<p>As an optimization, libtorrent does not include the extra key in case there are |
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only IPv4 nodes present.</p> |
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