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I made my own torrent file but it's not working, i think a tracker issue?

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:15 am
by billyp
Hi guys, I created a torrent file on my server using `mktorrent -v -a udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80 -o yo.torrent ahu.m4b` and started seeding it inside qBittorrent-Nox. Seeding server screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/1xEMgRk.jpg (the extra trackers I added later on manually from https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist `trackers_best_20`)

Now I'm trying to download the torrent on my PC but download is stuck at 0% for more than an hour. Leeching PC screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ApjPVDI.jpg
Any ideas on what's going wrong here? The server qB client & my PC qB client both work just fine for seeding/leeching independently. But now that I'm trying to seed from server & leech at my PC, it's not working. And just a note: the reverse works fine, creating&seeding a new torrent on my PC & leeching on server.

My server qB client listens for connections on port 32578 btw (I had to fix it due to Myanonamouse reqmt)

Any help or guidance would be appreciated, thank you.

Re: I made my own torrent file but it's not working, i think a tracker issue?

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:22 pm
by Peter
Direct seeding to yourself is always a pain.
I 100% recommend using SyncThing instead.

Re: I made my own torrent file but it's not working, i think a tracker issue?

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:02 pm
by billyp
Ok, it's sorted. I changed the public tracker to another one & it works fine now. 

Re: I made my own torrent file but it's not working, i think a tracker issue?

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:04 pm
by billyp
Peter wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:22 pm Direct seeding to yourself is always a pain.
I 100% recommend using SyncThing instead.
Hey thank you for the response, never heard of this will check it out. Looked it up a bit FOSS & all, looks amazing!