Posted: 10/4/2010 2:35 PM
Post subject: Problems with the tasvideos.org tracker
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10RingBox
He/Him
Joined: 10/4/2010
Posts: 19
Lately I've been having difficulty connecting to the tasvideos bittorrent, I attempted a forum search for "tracker status" (and a site search) but couldn't find any information on the subject, so I'm not sure if it's a problem on my end or not. In the past I have not had difficulty connecting and downloading. I know some websites require you to maintain an upload as well as a download, every TAS I've downloaded on this computer I continue to seed afterward, so I know if that was an issue it shouldn't be bothering me right now. I cannot connect to the tracker (Connecting tracker to say Start, waiting for response) either to upload or download. Last night one of my seeds managed to connect at 0kb/sec but it lost connection soon thereafter. I've connected to both my home network and university and both are unable to connect. (I'm using BitLord as my tracker of choice.) edit: I have 3 seeds from Speed Demos Archive that seem to be able to connect. None of the tasvideos seeds are connecting.
Posted: 10/4/2010 2:41 PM
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Ilari
Emulator Coder, Skilled player (1113)
Joined: 5/1/2010
Posts: 1217
Rookie of 2010 New systems TASer of 2010 New systems TAS of 2010
Doesn't seem to be just you, I am seeding some torrents and all using TASVideos tracker are listed as "<Tracker> not working: Connection refused" (I'm using Qbittorrent). One of torrents is using different tracker and it works.
Posted: 10/4/2010 3:15 PM
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Nach
Emulator Coder
Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
The tracker seems to have died. Restarted it.
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Posted: 10/4/2010 7:46 PM
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10RingBox
He/Him
Joined: 10/4/2010
Posts: 19
Confirming that the tracker seems to be working again now, thanks! :)
Posted: 10/16/2010 5:32 PM
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Whelkman
Joined: 7/7/2007
Posts: 161
Tracker down again?
Posted: 10/16/2010 5:39 PM
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Nach
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Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
Restarted .. again. I'll see if I can find out why it's inexplicably dying now and then.
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Posted: 10/30/2010 6:37 PM
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Whelkman
Joined: 7/7/2007
Posts: 161
Died last night again.
Posted: 11/2/2010 11:10 PM
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Flygon
Joined: 11/4/2007
Posts: 1772
Location: Australia, Victoria
This is why we have HTTP seeding.
Posted: 11/16/2010 9:26 AM
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GuidMorrow
Joined: 4/30/2008
Posts: 89
Location: Northeast Kansas USA, GMT -06:00
Well, is the Server connections from Clients being blocked? We definitely need to know what's going on up there! IIRC, there was an incident months ago with PeerBlock users that got the tracker blocked up until users can add it into the exceptions list. Another large unified theory is that the tracker software in use is very unstable and going into convulsions.
Posted: 11/18/2010 12:17 AM
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Whelkman
Joined: 7/7/2007
Posts: 161
The tracker dies very nearly on a bi-weekly basis. A simple cron job that restarts the service every 7-10 days could mitigate the issue.