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Originally Posted by photon
Yeah, if OpenDNS has the ability to blacklist URLs or IPs then that would do it.
Until the person overrode their DNS settings with another DNS server, or edited the hosts file and added the tracker back in.
To combat trackerless torrents you'd have to do some kind of packet inspection.
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Even that is tough since most torrent clients can require their traffic to be encrypted, so no intermediaries could know exactly what the traffic is.
I know Rogers in some areas tries to solve that by throttling ALL encrypted traffic - email and everything was caught in that net.
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