Proxy — Extratorrnet.cc

Meaning: zero seeds, zero leeches, empty peers list. The proxy was a mirror that reflected nothing back. It wasn't connecting you to anyone. It was just… there.

The response was a standard "bencoded" message. The proxy returned: extratorrnet.cc proxy

This was a preservation project, disguised as a proxy. Someone had indexed the old Extratorrent database (which had been publicly dumped years ago) and was serving magnet links through this domain. But why was it appearing as a proxy inside my BitTorrent client? Meaning: zero seeds, zero leeches, empty peers list

The answer lay in the .torrent file itself. I opened the raw torrent in a text editor. Buried in the "tracker" field, alongside the usual udp:// and https:// URLs for open trackers, was a line: Meaning: zero seeds