Apple supports BitTorrent trackers at its Cupertino headquarters

Apple is not too warm to see BitTorrent apps on the App Store. But this does not mean that the company rejects the very idea of ​​using technology for itself. As it turned out, several BitTorrent trackers work at the headquarters of the company. This fact was discovered through the IoT search engine Shodan.

Most often such trackers use 6969 port. After checking, it turned out that the active trackers are located on several IPs at once, which belong to Apple. These are 17.17.17.102, 17.17.17.108, 17.17.17.30, 17.17.17.59, 17.17.17.8, 17.17.17.15, 17.17.17.133, 17.17.17.110, 17.17.17.138, 17.17.17.248, 17.17.17.56 and 17.17.17.248. Also, trackers can be “tapped” on port 80 (HTTP), these are 17.17.17.220, 17.17.17.41, 17.17.17.44, 17.17.17.170, 17.17.17.58, 17.17.17.21, 17.17.17.104, 17.17.17.102, 17.17.17.133, 17.17.17.59, 17.17.17.108, 17.17.17.27, 17.17.17.5, 17.17.17.15, 17.17.17.24, 17.17.17.243, 17.17.17.68 and 17.17.17.41. All of these IPs are owned by Apple. The journalists of the online media Torrentfreak sent a request to Apple, wanting to get information about the purpose of using trackers in the company, but there is no answer yet.

But he gladly answered Shodan’s CEO John John Matherly. According to him, all this information was checked several times. And for verification, Shodan sent a connection request with ID 0x34925. The host responded, and the nature of the "otvetki" allows you to say that this is a BitTorrent tracker.
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Most likely, the company uses torrent trackers for internal needs - Facebook has been doing the same with Twitter (since 2010). Companies work with BitTorrent to transfer large amounts of data within their own network. The Facebook social network has already called BitTorrent a “super duper fast” way to transfer data.

However, the corporation regularly removes BitTorrent apps from the App Store. Probably, in order to enjoy the technology in splendid isolation.