I am running > 200 torrents on I2P with a lot more planned. Today Postman had some problems (the site is under constant attack as all eepsites in general, if you run one, read the logs) with users experiencing timeouts or being rate limited. This caused tracker announces to time out.
As Postman is the only viable source to search for torrents on I2P, dozens of my torrents, which I am seeding exclusively and which show constant tracker timeouts, are still unavailable when searched for on Postman.
I strongly suggest, you get in contact with Postman and develop a timing strategy for announces and retries that will work for any number of torrents, even after some downtime at Postman.
I think, one can not blame Postman, he is defending himself, we are in the darknet here with a huge number of nodes being run by malicious actors.
by Guest on 2025/11/24 12:16:21 PM
tixati v3.39 has i2p dht and i2p pex, so it can find torrent easily if postman fails.
furthermore, postman is working now.
I am not talking about Tixati finding peers, it is about users finding torrents on I2P. For > 99% of all torrents, Postman is the sole source with a searchable index. If Tixati times out a tracker announce, Postman will stop listing the affected torrents shortly thereafter.
Then a leecher would be required to search for dead torrents, download and start them, and hope DHT will help.
by Guest on 2025/11/27 10:32:27 AM
There is nothing specific to Postman tracker here. It can change code to cache peers for longer amounts of time to smooth it over intermittent availability. It can advise peers to contact tracker less often to make filtering bots easier (obviously, bots themselves ignore that).
In an anonymous network, you should assume that cheap attacks will always be performed (simply because they are cheap), and that availability of a service is not always guaranteed.
You have probably got an impression that the peer-tracker system must always be synchronised. It can't be, and it won't be. There is no way (and no point) in making it secure (and therefore closed).
Also, trusting peer counts on some site was possible in the era of Pirate Bay. Today, if you want something, you most definitely need to try all torrents you've found, and wait for days or weeks.
