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Tracker ↔ central Server to track/Announce Seed/Peer list

aka Torrent-Tracker, Bittorrent-tracker

Private Tracker​

invite-only Torrent to enforce Share Ratio & strict rules (to disallow discovery mechanisms)

References​

  1. Magnet Link ↔ URI Scheme to embed torrent metadata, Tracker as string

  2. .torrent ↔ metadata file to describe torrent content (name, size, checksum), Tracker locations to connect to Swarm

  3. Announce ↔ to send GET request to Tracker to announce presence to Swarm