bittorrent - Whats the use of Trackers info on torrent site for General/Regular Public?

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2014-07
  • AMB

    Why is there Torrent Tracker information available on the Torrent sites. Whats the use of it, for General Public like me. e.g.

    http://bitsnoop.com/linux-ubantu-server-ubantu-desktop-q32359382.html

    In Trackers Tab

    Known Trackers
#   Announce URL    Peers   Last Seen
1   http://ipv6.tracker.harry.lu/announce   0 / 0   long ago
2   http://sline.net:2710/announce  0 / 0   long ago

    why is it there ? what i can do with that information ?

    Whats the benefit of it to other technical users ?

    Thanks

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  • Rob

    A server is acting as a host/tracker for various torrent files; if I have a working torrent I can download from it.

    Is there an easy way to see which other files it is tracking/hosting?


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  • Svish

    As far as I know it is not, unless they have some sort of web-interface or a client application for that particular purpose.

    Note: Of course if you had access to the database or file the tracker software used to store info about the torrents it is tracking you could technically see what it was tracking. But that information isn't exactly user friendly or particularly readable. Of course it is possible to see what it is if you know what you are looking at, but what you are looking at most likely depends on tracker to tracker