Understanding the Bittorrent Protocol

Question

Hi all

I am looking for some books, tutorial sites .

I want to understand how Bittorrent protocol works and later to implement my own tracker .

I don't have a big knowledge in network protocols so I am looking for a newbie stuff .

Have seen following posts but they didn't helped me with my issue :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/623635/a-bittorrent-client-completely-written-in-c

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/990677/implementing-bittorrent-protocol

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/383862/looking-for-some-good-books-resources-on-understanding-bittorrent

Thanks for help .

Answer 1

The BitTorrent specification is quite easy reading (relatively speaking):

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep%5F0003.html

The wikipedia page is also surprisingly comprehensive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent%5F%28protocol%29