A connection attempt failed in download
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I'm not able to connect to the tracker AT ALL now. New downloads can't connect, and none of my completed downloads are seeding,
Like other users, I was previously able to connecct intermittently (but only for a short time abd only for a small number of torrents) but now the tracker isn't working at all.
The trackers for other sites (private and public) are alk working fine, it's just the torrents that use the tracker from this website that are showing as errors.
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Update: The older version v4.6.0 qbittorent is not working for me anymore. Only a handful are seeding. I can't download anything. It seems the site the problem.
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I'm also having this problem. Only with this tracker. It started about 1 week ago. Using qBitorrent 4.6.4.
My error is "skipping tracker announce (unreachable)".
Happening with 200-544 different torrents throughout the day. Always different number of torrents. Always same error. Always and only this tracker.
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@MrMazda said in A connection attempt failed in download:
I have been keeping an eye on the situation and have noticed that at times, many torrents will time out, but after some time, come back to life. I have notified the sysop of this.
Thank you.
There are side effects to this issue besides hassles with downloading and missing out on opportunities to seed. If the tracker can't be contacted again for a torrent after a download finishes, the site doesn't know that the torrent has been downloaded, for example there is no voting prompt near the top of the torrent's page. I expect this also means that if a torrent is downloaded fully during a Freeleech period, but the tracker can't be contacted again for that torrent until after the Freeleech period ends, the download may not register as free. I've tried testing this, but the torrent I downloaded to test has not been able to connect and update the tracker after download finished and the Freeleech time for it has expired.
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I reset my passkey yesterday, which updated my tracker announce URL, and that seems to have fixed my connectivity problems.
The updated tracker is connecting and i've been able to download and seed torrents.
Updating the passkey of course means that the tracker in each of my completed torrents had to be manually changed in order for them to seed, which is annoying, but at least i can download/seed now.
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@ryan0202012 How did you do that?
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PASSKEY Info : https://www.gaytor.rent/faq.php#16
OVERVIEW :
What's a 'passkey'?
A passkey is a key associated with your account that uniquely identifies you as a gaytor.rent user.When a .torrent file is downloaded from your account, the passkey is automatically added to the announce URL in the .torrent file. Therefore whenever that .torrent is used the tracker will associate it with your account, no matter what IP you are connecting from.
Make sure you keep your passkey and .torrent files private at all times.
Do not give .torrent files you downloaded at gaytor.rent to someone else, do not upload it to other websites! Everybody connecting to the tracker using your .torrent file will leech from your account!How do I reset my passkey?
Go to your page and request a new passkey. Note that by using this you will invalidate all the .torrent files that you may have previously downloaded, and will have to download them again.
What's your .torrent/passkey sharing policy?
In order to prevent our .torrents from being uploaded to public sites (in effect turning this into a public tracker), there are a number of security measures in place. First among them is the following: if, at any time, there are more than 5 distinct IPs simultaneously using the same passkey with the same torrent, the account associated with the passkey will be automatically get a new passkey. This will also invalidate all your previously downloaded torrents!
You may still seed/leech the same torrent from several PCs as long as you are careful not to exceed this limit.
Note that this takes into account simultaneous connections only. If you have a dynamic IP and have to change it 100 times while downloading a torrent that it will not trigger this mechanism. (As long as you exit your client properly, there will only be one peer/IP at any time.)
- Keep in mind that resetting your PASSKEY will invalidate all your active torrents that will result in Failure/Unregistered torrent ...
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@john32123666 said in A connection attempt failed in download:
PASSKEY Info : https://www.gaytor.rent/faq.php#16
OVERVIEW :
What's a 'passkey'?
A passkey is a key associated with your account that uniquely identifies you as a gaytor.rent user.When a .torrent file is downloaded from your account, the passkey is automatically added to the announce URL in the .torrent file. Therefore whenever that .torrent is used the tracker will associate it with your account, no matter what IP you are connecting from.
Make sure you keep your passkey and .torrent files private at all times.
Do not give .torrent files you downloaded at gaytor.rent to someone else, do not upload it to other websites! Everybody connecting to the tracker using your .torrent file will leech from your account!How do I reset my passkey?
Go to your page and request a new passkey. Note that by using this you will invalidate all the .torrent files that you may have previously downloaded, and will have to download them again.
Just for further clarity, you request a new passkey via your 'Profile' page by clicking your username in the top-right and then selecting 'Profile'.
There's a checkbox to 'Reset passkey' a few lines above 'Browse default categories' section.
I just checked the box and hit Submit Changes at the bottom.
Hope it works for you too
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@freakgeek see below
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@ryan0202012 ...
resetting PASSKEY is not a solution ...
it will revert to Timed Out status or updating after a period of time ... [a system glitch]- so do not reset your PASSKEY if you haven't done so far ...
It's coming from the site, regardless of client ...
However not all of us aren't affected yet ...
Hoping the SYSOP can figure out what's goin' on ... -
@MrMazda
I just took a peek and it seems now only ~20 of ~250 torrents are timed out. Hopefully this a sign of things improving... -
@tnar ...
Fortunately It's fine right now ...
I just exited my client restarted PC and client and observe, all the active torrent [Tracker] updated immediately ...
So this issue occurs when maintenance happen, seems like a leftover bug ...
I'm pretty sure this Timed Out will Go Away [soon] and not to annoy again ... -
Each day varies for me. One day its all working, the next only few.
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@DirtyNick
Yeah, now I'm back to 160/250 timed out. I spoke too soon earlier. -
@DirtyNick ...
yeah it's a system bug, right now it started all over again so there is no point ...
I did shut down my client, there on period and time out ...
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It is good that the issue has been acknowledged finally.
Besides the immediate fix, it would be very useful if the admins could come up with one or more steps to more conclusively determine that the server/tracker is at fault in the future. Anything that avoids the unnecessary tug-of-war that transpired over the last 2 weeks as we tried to convince folks that there is a problem with the tracker and not with individual user clients.
Regrettably, some users ended up resetting their passkeys in the false hopes of a quick fix - another thing that could have been avoided by a quicker acknowledgement of the issue than the 10 days it took here.
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Did they really fixed it? Having issues still at the moment. Is it because I reset my passkey the other day?
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@DirtyNick same here, nothing has been resolved yet. Since you reset your passkey, you'll need to redownload every torrent to start seeding again.
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@spiffyweasel-0 Done but still having issues.
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