On Monday, December 01, 2008 David Barrett wrote: > Saw uTorrent switched to UDP: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/
Is it just me, or this article is really unnecessarily alarmist? Richard Bennett describes the situation as if there is no congestion control in the UDP file transfer protocol used by uTorrent, which I find a bit hard to believe. Is this really the case? I cannot imagine how the data transfer protocol without any congestion control can possibly exist - the only issue seems to be how aggressive would it be in comparison with TCP, not whether it would melt down the Internet or not. But he sounds like the sky will be falling any moment now; is this position substantiated by any objective evidence? Best wishes - S.Osokine. 1 Dec 2008. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barrett Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:10 PM To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks Subject: [p2p-hackers] Did uTorrent add NAT traversal? Saw uTorrent switched to UDP: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/ Did they also add simultaneous connect NAT traversal? That'd require a tracker change, I assume. (Though they could probably do it through the DHT.) -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
