Resurrecting a dead Torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers

Kian Bradley was downloading something using BitTorrent, and noticed that quite a few trackers were dead.

Most of the trackers were totally dead. Either the hosts were down or the domains weren't being used.

That got me thinking. What if I picked up one of these dead domains? How many clients would try to connect?

Kian Bradley

It turns out the answer is a lot.