Ghostleeching without extra tool

**matias** · 28.02.09, 03:04

Hi,

I've been searching this forum just for fun, and i've noticed that always you talk about ghostleeching you need an extra tool.

Well, let me tell you that there's no need for an extra tool, just follow this steps and you'll be ghostleeching in no time

1) I use uTorrent but this should work with any bittorrent client that supports a proxy
2) Go to preferences, connection, and remove any proxy (if any).
3) Start your torrent, wait a few seconds till you get the peer list
4) Go to preferences, connection, and add a proxy that doesn't exists ... for example, you can put in host: 1.1.1.1 or 127.0.0.1 (or any other ip address that doesn't have a proxy listening) and choose a random port.

Ready, the next time your client tries to announce, it'll fail without reporting anything to the tracker. Just make sure you stop the torrent before removing the proxy.

Please, sorry my english ... it's not my native language and i just returned from a party and i'm a little bit drunk

**Butcho** · 28.02.09, 08:36

hello mathias,

the proxy part is a really good alternative for removing the tracker url.
But you should also change your ip before you restart your torrent.
It's much safer because then the staff can't compare their peer lists of their clients with the one on their tracker.
They will found out that there is an ghost leeching ip but then they could only search after your range and not after the exact ip address...

About the extra tool:
I think anon has created it because the he could enable DHT the hole time and in the past the problem with UT1610 was that the program deletes the peer cache after you've renewed your ip....

**anon** · 28.02.09, 16:35

Hi Matías,

A very good method you got there.

You could also announce through a real proxy first (if the tracker allows them), and go to step 4 after getting the peerlist. If you were also browsing the tracker behind the same HTTP proxy, it won't know your real IP at all. Of course you can also change your real IP restarting your router/changing your MAC/etc. like Butcho said, and you won't have to worry about whether the tracker has detected you're behind a proxy.

Another way to manage it is to flush your DNS cache after the first announce, and add this line to your HOSTS file:

Code:

127.0.0.1 tracker.xxxxxx.com

But it's more complicated.

@Butcho: that's right - changing the tracker URL list for private torrents made uTorrent forget about all peers. But if you make a mod ignore the private flag, uT will no longer be able to tell whether a torrent is private or not, and since the security measure doesn't apply to public torrents, it won't empty the peer cache.

**Butcho** · 28.02.09, 17:54

thx bro for explanation, i thought that they have removed the peer cache problem in v 1.8*!
I saw mathias comes from the same path ot the earth like you, perhaps he is your neighbor....

**whateveritakes** · 31.01.10, 17:02

too complicated for me, but just curios, this method still working?

**anon** · 31.01.10, 17:03

It should...

If in doubt, try it on a public torrent. Or ILT.

**Instab** · 31.01.10, 18:40

Originally Posted by whateveritakes

too complicated for me, but just curios, this method still working?

complicated

just insert a fantasy proxy after you got enough peers

**anon** · 31.01.10, 18:40

Isn't that exactly what this method consists on?

Or are you trying to summarize the first post?

**Instab** · 31.01.10, 19:36

Originally Posted by anon

Or are you trying to summarize the first post?

exactly, to show that it's not as complicated as whateveritakes thought

**Mihai** · 31.01.10, 19:38

I like the method

And hi matias.Haven't seen you in a while.

**anon** · 31.01.10, 19:39

And hi matias.Haven't seen you in a while.

Same here.

Look at the thread's date

**Mihai** · 31.01.10, 19:41

Originally Posted by anon

Same here.

Look at the thread's date

FAIL

Even bigger than SBfreak

**leechmodder** · 11.10.11, 15:56

But what will the tracker think? Mr tracker will be like, this guy downloaded a torrent file from me and started the torrent but never completed. Hmmm and quite a few of his recent snatches are the same.....Something is fishy here.......

**anon** · 11.10.11, 19:22

Originally Posted by leechmodder

But what will the tracker think? Mr tracker will be like, this guy downloaded a torrent file from me and started the torrent but never completed. Hmmm and quite a few of his recent snatches are the same.....Something is fishy here.......

Risk-Return Tradeoff Definition

**D3TR1TUs** · 09.01.12, 12:25

Originally Posted by anon

@Butcho: that's right - changing the tracker URL list for private torrents made uTorrent forget about all peers. But if you make a mod ignore the private flag, uT will no longer be able to tell whether a torrent is private or not, and since the security measure doesn't apply to public torrents, it won't empty the peer cache.

Any chance we could get a DIY tut on how to mod any version of uT so as to ignore the preivate flag?

I know there are already some mods for this, but this way you could keep using your fav version of uT :)