SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

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zosterops

SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

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OS: Windows 7
QB: 3.3.13
Connection Status: Green, Online

Issue: On 100% of torrents I download, every tracker's status is reported as "Not Working." DHT, PeX, and LSD are all "Working," however, and I am usually able to download/upload. 

Below are two screen shots from two legal torrents. "Night of the Living Dead" from Archive.org and "Bribery Compilation_002" from now.bt.co. The trackers, like in all of my other torrents, are Not Working.

I've been working on this for a while and am out of ideas on how to further troubleshoot. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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Re: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

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Well the screens simply mean there are no peers to download from.
AND that the trackers that are added to the torrent - do not work anymore.

When you have public torrents, you can always add new trackers. (And hope you will find new peers there.)
Openbittorrent.com had these last on their page:
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337

udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969

udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969

udp://zer0day.ch:1337

udp://explodie.org:6969

Just add them to the torrent in qBittorrent.
zosterops

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Thanks for your help, Peter. This is happening on 100% of the torrents I download. If the problem is that the trackers are offline or there are no peers, is there a legal torrent with peers and known working trackers that you could point me to? That way I could test whether the problem is on my end or not.
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I added the trackers you suggested and they're all saying "Not Working."

Here's another example. Ubuntu 16.04.03: http://linuxtracker.org/?page=torrent-d ... 012a0fe7c8
After running for 30minutes, qBittorrent found peers through DHT and PeX but both trackers are reported as "Not Working":
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Re: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

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When I use Vuze (default settings -- no changes), all of the trackers for the above Linux torrent are "online."

Another detail: When I try to download from a private tracker, the torrents don't work at all (since no peers can be found on DHT, PeX, LSD). The same torrents added to Vuze connect immediately.

Any ideas?
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Re: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

Post by ItWasSooted »

I had a similar problem where the trackers, both public and private, would eventually connect, but would take 1 or 2 hours to do so (never timed it).

This is the reason why I tried the Beta version, where the trackers do connect immediately.
zosterops

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DUDE!! Thank you!! You were totally right, installing the latest beta version fixed the problem immediately.

Thank you so much!
Switeck

Re: SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

Post by Switeck »

Just so we can make sense of what bug/s in qBT v3.3.13 caused this...

1.Were you using a VPN or proxy?
2.Were you using default settings in qBT for connections max and torrent queuing?
3.Did you have some/many "dead" torrents that were dead even on Vuze?
zosterops

Re: SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

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[quote="Switeck"]
Just so we can make sense of what bug/s in qBT v3.3.13 caused this...

1.Were you using a VPN or proxy?
2.Were you using default settings in qBT for connections max and torrent queuing?
3.Did you have some/many "dead" torrents that were dead even on Vuze?
[/quote]

1. Yes to VPN, no to proxy. But I experienced the same problem whether or not I was connected to the VPN. QB Is bound to the VPN network interface.
2. I don't have any Connection Limits set (all checkboxes are unmarked). My torrent queuing is set to 5/300/300/Do Not Count Slow Torrents.
3. I have 4 stalled torrents (0%) in QB that don't have any seeds/peers. They were there while I was experiencing the problem and are still there now. I didn't test them in Vuze.

Current status while connected to VPN: 
Connection status is green. I'm successfully connecting to both public and private trackers.
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Re: SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

Post by Switeck »

1.I've seen reports that VPNs and proxies make qBT have a lot more trouble getting and maintaining connections, so it could be the logic for that changed from v3.3.13 going to v3.4.0beta.

2 and 3.It's possible for dead-but-started torrents to "hog" all the allowed active torrent slots and cause all sorts of weird torrents won't start, trackers don't work, seeds/peers don't connect problems.

It seems strange to me that qBT gets incoming connections ok...but you still had such terrible problems. Are you sure they're coming through the VPN though?
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Re: SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

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Hi everybody, i have the same problem here and i cant find solution
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Re: SOLVED: Trackers "Not Working," DHT, PeX, LSD "Working"

Post by BisulphateGenesis »

For me, I just had to change from a TCP OpenVPN configuration to a UDP configuration.
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