BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks

jZnat writes "CNet News.com reports that popular BitTorrent tracker hosts such as Suprnova and LokiTorrent underwent DDoS attacks on Wednesday (I'll bet you noticed). The culprits are primarily unknown, but these sites were flooded beyond control from the attack. This appears to be striking an interest in revising the BT protocol and Suprnova's interest in making their own protocol."

Comments

suprnova.com and .net

[dncsky1530]

I would like to know whether suprnova.com and suprnova.net were hit by the DDoS attacks. They try and maky money of the popularity of suprnova.org and there are a number of people that actually get suckered into paying those sites.

So it's time to...

[WARM3CH]

So it's time to switch to a serverless network under an open-source project? You mean something like Kademlia in the eMule?

Own protocol?

[tod_miller]

Suprnova's interest in making their own protocol.

I am all up for new protocols, but there is a reason why we do not have:

http, httmyp, tthpp, hhtp, mshttp [I wouldnt doubt], SCOhttp, HPhttp

Don't fragment the issues, work on a common protocol, if we can uncouple protocol and application (which has happened in all major networks I think) then good.

Go for it supe..r..pr..nva...! but make it open.

I kinda knew bit torrents would be attacked, can't they just publish the ip's that are attacking them, and get us to click on them a bit?

teardrop attack?

Fracturing is inevitable...

[Kjella]

...there's just too many variables that are directly opposing.

Central vs decentral
Peers vs supernodes vs superservers vs tracker
Anonymity vs speed
Integrity vs fuzzy search
Search by content vs by index vs by hash vs...
Routing vs direct links
Indexing vs index poisoning
Trust vs anonymity
Leeching vs control

It is impossible to create a network that can achieve all of them at once.

Http is by comparison a trivial protocol. It involves only the connection between two hosts. Creating a virtual network of P2P clients is more like reimplementing the whole of layers 3 (IP), 4 (TCP), 5 (sessions) in the OSI model.

Kjella

Re:Come on

[femto]

You may jest, but read some of the reports coming out of the current Kazza case in Australia.

For example:

The Federal Court heard yesterday that the major record labels are also engaged in a program of actively disrupting the file-sharing network by bombarding it with billions of decoys and spoofs that pose as song files.

On the bright side, the article also contains the following quote from the judge:

The judge said it was important that any legal remedy did not trespass on freedom of communication. "You are entitled to protect copyright. You are not entitled to control the internet," he said.