Torrent tells me that DHT, Local Peer Discovery, and Peer Exchange are all “not allowed” for every DIME torrent I join. Whats wrong?
Nothing is wrong, and if you are having any difficulty with that torrent, your problem is unrelated. On a members-only tracker, the tracker has to make sure that the only peers that get into a torrent are those that the tracker lets in by making sure each is associated with a legitimate account. Distributed Hash Table, Local Peer Discovery, and Peer Exchange are ways that a peer can extend the swarm into places where other people’s peers can join without their being vetted by the tracker. But that’s not the worst part: not only do those extensions allow non-members (including banned ex-members) into the torrent, but also they enable the swarm to continue running indefinitely even if the tracker has stopped tracking it; thus, if DIME has banned a torrent for legal reasons and stopped tracking it, permitting any of those would mean that the ban wouldn’t make the torrent wind down to a close.
