ipMagnet

ipMagnet allows you to quickly check what adresses your BitTorrent client is handing out to its Trackers. It does this by generating a magnet link, which when being requested generates a database entry.

The source code is freely available on http://github.com/cbdevnet/ipmagnet and is designed to be read and understood by anyone having basic knowledge of HTML, PHP and JavaScript.

The interface can be used without having JavaScript enabled.

Requirements

• A web server accessible on the internet, providing an HTTP daemon (eg. lighttpd) with PHP5 (eg. php5-cgi (debian)) optionally with enabled JSON extensions for use by the AJAX interface (mostly the default by now)
• SQLite PDO modules for PHP5 (eg. php5-sqlite (debian))
• The user running the HTTP daemon (www-data on debian) must have read/write access on the database file as well as the folder containing it

Setup

1. Clone the repo into a folder that is available by the httpd.
2. Edit index.php
   • Change the tracker URL (line 2) to point to the public location of the index.php file.
   • Optionally edit the database path (line 3) if you do not want to have the database in the same folder for security reasons (or set up your webserver so it denies access to the database file).

Setting a timeout value

If you'd like to set a timeout after which clients should recheck their IP against the tracking link, set $enableInterval to true on line 4.

WARNING: This feature may be ignored or may break some clients (and they'd be right) as the spec explicitly states that when a 'failure reason' key is sent (which ipMagnet does), NO other key may be present. So use at your own risk.

High traffic hosts

Large or high-volume installations, much as I would encourage everyone to host their own instances instead, should probably use some advanced safeguards, such as using a RDBMS more suited for such workloads (such as PostgreSQL or MariaDB) as the data backend. This can be done by changing the DSN (Data Source Name). Please refer to the PHP PDO manual for information on how to do that.

The database needs to contain a table named 'hits' with the columns

'id' INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL UNIQUE
'hash' TEXT NOT NULL or VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL /* (depending on your RDBMS) */
'timestamp' INTEGER NOT NULL
'addr' TEXT NOT NULL or VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
'agent' TEXT NOT NULL or VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL

Another good idea would be to use a cronjob to regularly wipe the database to ensure better privacy on behalf of the users.

Example configuration snippet for Apache

<Files "ipmagnet.db3">
	Order allow,deny
	Deny from all
</Files>