Hey all! D337z here with a little bit of an interesting project.
With the invent of PEX and DHT, certain torrent sites have disabled their trackers altogether.
As some of us may well know, BitComit has a built-in feature in its recent versions that forces the enabling of DHT for private torrents should the tracker be down. This means that if the peer count is 0, it shouldn't be for long. ;)
My question/project is, is there a means to force the usage of DHT and PEX under other programs such as Azureus? Since Azureus utilizes plugins, it seems to me that it wouldn't be entirely difficult to create one to perform this task.
In truth, this is somewhat of a selfish question because I've been waiting forever for a private torrent to finish with only 1 seed connected almost the entire time. Scotty, I need more power!
While I'm on the topic, if you use torrent programs, SEED!
-D337z