David,

I'm going to guess that it's all DHT, with the possibility of tracker
support but ONLY in the proprietary Bittorrent Inc. trackers (which only sit
on the bittorrent.com or Bittorrent Inc. controlled domains).

It is not in Bittorrent Inc.'s interest to make trackers generally better on
the Internet.

In order to make money, they want their client technology widely distributed
to 100's of millions of users, fully in their control (i.e. no open source
for uTorrent), and for Bittorrent, Inc. to have the preeminent, feature-rich
trackers.  And of course, they maintain a powerful DHT so that uTorrent
clients get good, fast, free pirated content on demand with
somewhat-minimized risk of THE MAN carrying them off to jail (this keeps the
kids coming back to install utorrent :))

Travis


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:10 PM, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> 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
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