Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol, made the first BitTorrent client, which he also called BitTorrent, and published it in July 2001. Many BitTorrent programs are open-source software; others are freeware, adware or shareware. Some download managers, such as FlashGet and GetRight, are BitTorrent-ready. Torrents have a bad reputation due to piracy, but they aren't illegal in themselves and have lots of legitimate uses, including downloading open source software and material that's in the public.
The following is a list of notable software for running a BitTorrent tracker.
| Tracker | Programming Language | License | IPv4 | IPv6 | Operating System Support | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLDonkey[1] | OCaml | GPL | Yes | Windows, OS X, Unix-like, Morph OS | Has a built-in tracker and announcement service | |
| MonoTorrent[2] | C# | MIT | Yes | Windows, Mac OS, Unix-like | Uses Mono or .NET Core for cross-platform support (.NET) | |
| Opentracker[3] | C | Beerware | Yes | Yes (IPv4 and IPv6 have separate binaries and processes that do not share any information between them. If a client communicates to the tracker over IPv6, it will only receive IPv6 addresses in the response.) | Unix-like (source code only) | Uses libowfat,[4] performs well even on embedded hardware. Only requirement is a POSIX compliant OS. Supports only a compact peer list. |
| PeerTracker[5] | PHP | GPL | Yes | Web application | Extremely lightweight and efficient BitTorrent tracker. Supports SQLite3, and MySQL for storage. | |
| μTorrent[6] | C++ | Freeware | Yes | Windows, OS X, Linux, Android | Does not have a list of hosted torrents. | |
| qBittorrent[7] | C++ | GPLv2 | Yes | Windows, OS X, Unix-like, OS/2 | Lightweight. Supports DHT, PEX, announcements via UDP. Does not have a web interface or list of hosted torrents; it is not designed for secure or large-scale application. | |
| Vuze[8] | Java | Disputed | Yes | Windows, Mac OS, Linux | Vuze (formerly Azureus) has a built in tracker. | |
| XBT Tracker[9][10] | C++ | GPL | Yes | Windows, Linux | Uses MySQL for data storage, lightweight tracker | |
| Bitstorm[11] | PHP | GPL | Yes | Windows, Linux, OS X | A lightweight tracker that does not require any external database support. |
Ubuntu packages. QBittorrent is now available in official Ubuntu repositories since v9.04 'Jaunty'. More up-to-date packages are published on our stable and unstable PPAs. The stable PPA supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (only the libtorrent-rasterbar package), 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS. The unstable PPA supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04 LTS.
References[edit]
- ^'BT-default tracker'. sourceforge.net.
- ^http://github.com/mono/monotorrent
- ^erdgeist. 'opentracker'. erdgeist.org.
- ^'libowfat'. fefe.de.
- ^'latest known svn revision of the trigunflame peertracker, which is a lightweight PHP/SQL BitTorrent Tracker: JonnyJD/peertracker'. March 21, 2019 – via GitHub.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^'qBittorrent official website'. sourceforge.net.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2009-05-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^'XBT Tracker'. sourceforge.net.
- ^'xbt - High-performance BitTorrent Tracker - Google Project Hosting'. google.com.
- ^https://github.com/petcap/bitstorm
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