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aquatic: high-performance open BitTorrent tracker

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High-performance open BitTorrent tracker, consisting of sub-implementations for different protocols:

NameProtocolOS requirements
aquatic_udpBitTorrent over UDPUnix-like
aquatic_httpBitTorrent over HTTP, optionally over TLSLinux 5.8 or later
aquatic_wsWebTorrent, optionally over TLSLinux 5.8 or later

Features at a glance:

Known users:

Performance of the UDP implementation

UDP BitTorrent tracker throughput

More benchmark details are available here.

Usage

Please refer to the README pages for the respective implementations listed in the table above.

Auxiliary software

There are also some auxiliary applications and libraries.

Tracker load testing

Load test applications for aquatic and other trackers, useful for profiling:

Automated benchmarking of aquatic and other trackers: aquatic_bencher

Client ⇄ tracker communication

Libraries for communication between clients and trackers:

Other

Copyright and license

Copyright (c) Joakim Frostegård

Distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. Please refer to the LICENSE file in the repository root directory for details.

Trivia

The tracker is called aquatic because it thrives under a torrent of bits ;-)