Trackers Offline
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I turned my VPN on and the trackers became alive so the issue may be on my end. The weird thing is I never used a VPN to download torrents before so maybe my provider is now throttling them, I dunno. If this is indeed the issue, maybe someone has recommendations for a good VPN, preferably free with unlimited bandwidth? (Yeah I know that's a dream.)
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I turned my VPN on and the trackers became alive so the issue may be on my end. The weird thing is I never used a VPN to download torrents before so maybe my provider is now throttling them, I dunno. If this is indeed the issue, maybe someone has recommendations for a good VPN, preferably free with unlimited bandwidth? (Yeah I know that's a dream.)
howdy, i think you jumped the gun, pal. before going straight to the VPN way you should first tell us what is the reported tracker status when you try to connect without a VPN. Why? The VPN could be a fix to various different problems, it's always best practice to identify the problem before trying to fix it.
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@ianfontinell - hi! The gaytor.rent trackers are just saying "offline (timed out)" in uTorrent.
I was advised to try another client so I downloaded Deluge and tried one torrent - I got this error: "Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond"
Both of the above were done without VPN.
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@rradj given the "timed out" status I suspect that this is not a deliberate attempt by your ISP to block your torrent traffic.
It sounds like a temporary routing issue, which unfortunately is something that only your ISP can fix, so the only recommendation is to keep using a VPN for the time being. Just make sure to try connecting directly every couple of days to see if it is resolved.
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@rradj Hello, I'm having the same problem as you. I can access the site fine but the trackers are offline. What country are you from? I'm from the Philippines and I suspect that my ISP is blocking the trackers or something...
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Same with me. torrent client shows status "Unreachable". From Philippines as well, under ISP that starts with C
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definitely an ISP issue. i am with the same ISP C and have the same issue. I tried connecting to my mobile data just to try if the files would peer and they did
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Check if you can connect to the backend maybe?
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Yes same ISP C
️ Was there an announcement perhaps? This seems so specific… -
@rradj @frankdavao48 @clancytom it's all but confirmed. I'm also using C as my ISP. They most likely blocked the trackers. Unfortunately we can't do anything about it.
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Non-Filippino here, my immediate curiosity about the situation is, if you called the customer support and asked about it, could you end up in trouble with the law?
i ask because, like i said in my previous response, if this is in fact a bad routing situation, it will affect all clients, that doesn't mean it is intentional. but it might as well be, the fastest way to know would be contacting the ISP directly, but depending on the country's laws it might not be a wise idea.
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@ianfontinell It wouldn't necessarily get us in trouble with the law. Contacting the ISP just wouldn't do much regarding the issue as they most likely won't reverse it. The ISP we use has been blocking thousands of sites for years now specifically targeting adult sites and they've been praised for it. I found news that they just recently blocked over 72,000 domains linked to "prohibited content". Might be the culprit to our problem.
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If you are caught torrenting copyrighted material, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) usually sends you a copyright infringement warning notice.
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Also using the same ISP and experiencing the same problem. Issue is not specific to this tracker. Saw posts from other forums that the ISP is currently experiencing issues and they can't access other services like certain banking apps and other sites/servers.
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Staff reply here, sorry it took a couple of days.
I have measured this from our side, so here is what we can actually see rather than guess.
The tracker is up and has been throughout. It answers from here in a few hundredths of a second, the site is fine, and nothing was taken down or put into maintenance.
The more useful part: several people posting in this thread are announcing to our tracker right now, this minute, while I am writing this. So there is no outage. And for the accounts reporting the problem, our tracker has never seen a single announce arrive. Not a rejected one, not a failed one. Nothing reaches us at all.
That combination has only one shape. Your client's announce is being stopped somewhere on the path before it gets to us. It is also why the site still loads in your browser while your client cannot reach the tracker, and why a VPN or mobile data fixes it the second you switch, exactly as some of you found. Web traffic and the announce take different routes, and only one of them is being interrupted.
What we cannot see from here is whether that is deliberate filtering or something broken at your provider, and I would rather not put words in anyone's mouth. One of you mentioned other services failing at the same time, which reads more like a fault than like targeting. Either way it is not something we can fix from this end, and there is nothing wrong with your accounts.
What actually helps: a VPN, and it has to cover the torrent client, not only the browser. Mobile data works too. If it turns out to be a fault rather than a filter, it should clear by itself.
Thanks to the people who did the legwork in here, especially testing a second client and mobile data. That is what let us tell the difference from our side.
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@Joker thank you for the clarification about our accounts being fine. I agree with VPN usage. It did fix the issue.
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@clancytom If you don't mind sharing, which vpn did you use?
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Any recommendations for a VPN? I am not sure if a free unlimited VPN exists but I am not familiar with VPNs so any suggestion is welcome. Thanks!
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Tried to use google public DNS and it worked. Wondering if this is allowed?
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@frankdavao48 Yes it is totally fine to use a custom DNS provider.
The DNS is responsible for mapping the server's domain & IP, but the DNS alone is not responsible for routing the traffic. That is, if using a different DNS makes the tracker reachable, the ISP is not blocking its IP.
That is still insufficient to say it is definitely a temporary fault or an intentional filtering. But if it's intentional, you can expect a custom DNS to also stop working eventually, if they start blocking IPs.
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