Re: nameserver stats

[Anders Andersson <pipatron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Qualified guess: These might be so-called BitTorrent trackers.

These tracker URLs are embedded in torrent files that you download.
You can download these torrent files from various sources, not
necessarily (even rarely) from the site itself. When you load these
torrents into a BitTorrent client, the client tries to contact all the
trackers embedded in the file, and will probably try every 5 minutes
or so. Smarter clients would give up or use incremental/exponential
back-off, but there are probably enough dumb clients out there to
compensate.

The sad thing is that people try to use Tor for BitTorrent, though of
course there might be a use for BitTorrent on Tor so I hope it's not
just for sharing the random average movies and music.





On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Dyno Tor <dynotor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yup, BT=BitTorrent.    I don't know the sites by personal experience,
> they just seemed to have BT like names.  Strange that there's such a
> correspondence, but it isn't particular to your server -- I replicated
> your results on a handful of tests, from both my exit and a local
> non-tor IP.  Perhaps these are domains that have been shutdown via
> court order or over zealous domain registrars?  Still, I'd think
> people would stop trying to connect to them after a bit, but
> trackedbyet.info is the 6th most popular DNS name, and it doesn't
> resolve!
>
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Olaf Selke <olaf.selke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Dyno Tor wrote:
>>> Interesting.  Olaf, I notice BT destinations seem mapped to nxdomain
>>> or servfail.
>>
>> BT stands for BitTorrent, right?
>>
>>> Do you do this purposely to reduce abuse reports, or is
>>> that done by your upstream provider?
>>
>> neither, the nameserver running on this machine does caching only
>> knowing nothing but the root servers from its config. So there's no
>> upstream provider's ns used. I can't explain the nxdomain and servfail
>> mapping.
>>
>> Olaf
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