Tracker: Not Working

Nothinglose

Tracker information says Not Working with description no such host is known.

Why would that be? Would appreciate the help.

Kevin4fm

@Nothinglose The most likely explanation is that the torrent has been deleted from the site - maybe because it was a duplicate, it was subject to a DCMA strike, or perhaps some other rule infringement.

Find the original torrent you downloaded. With qBittorrent, it's easy: Simply click on the "General" tab, and there's usually a link to it. Visit that link. If it takes you to a "This page doesn't exist" page then it has most likely been zapped. Nothing you can do about this, so delete the torrent from your client.

If your client doesn't have this info, simply search for the torrent on the site. If you can no longer find it, again, that's because it no longer exists.

ianfontinell

@Nothinglose "no such host ia known" is a DNS error, it means your network is failing to find the IP address of the site.

If you're using a VPN, try connecting to a different location, or check the settings to see if there's an option to use a custom dns server.

If you don't have a VPN, you need to change the dns server in your network adapter's settings.

You can set your DNS to 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare DNS)

Nothinglose

@ianfontinell You were right I cannot resolve the name of the tracker. Tried Google and CF DNS but still didn't work. Might be related with ISP so will check that.

Thanks a lot.

MrMazda

@Nothinglose This could be a sign that your ISP is DNS filtering. A VPN will get around this unless they also use a good DPI system to block it. If that's the case, you need a VPN with a stealth feature, which uses a DPI firewall.

Joker

I checked our side properly before answering this.

Both tracker hostnames are up and answering right now, tracker.gaytor.rent and tracker.gaytorrent.ru, on both the HTTPS port and on port 2710. I tested all four announce endpoints from outside the network just now and every one of them responded correctly. So there is no outage on our end.

"No such host is known" is your machine failing to turn the tracker name into an IP address. It never gets as far as our server. Since you already tried Google and Cloudflare DNS without success, the most likely explanation is that your ISP filters DNS in a way that ignores which resolver you picked, which some do by intercepting the DNS port outright.

Two things worth knowing:

Both hostnames point at the same server address, so swapping one for the other only helps if your ISP is blocking the name rather than the address.
Turning on encrypted DNS in your browser does not help your torrent client. The client uses the operating system resolver, so it has to be set there or on your router.

So the order I would try it in: first switch on encrypted DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS) at the OS or router level rather than in the browser. If that changes nothing, a VPN will settle it, and as MrMazda said, if your ISP also runs deep packet inspection you will want one with an obfuscation or stealth mode.

If it still will not resolve after that, post these three things and I will dig further:

The exact announce URL your client shows for one of these torrents, with the long passkey blanked out.
What you get from running "nslookup tracker.gaytor.rent" in a command prompt.
Your country and which ISP you are on.

That last one matters because if a specific provider is filtering us, I want to know which one.

Joker

Joker here. I tested this from our side today rather than assuming, so here is where it actually stands.

Every announce URL we hand out is up and answering right now. I checked all four of them:

https://tracker.gaytor.rent/<passkey>/announce
http://tracker.gaytor.rent:2710/<passkey>/announce
https://tracker.gaytorrent.ru/<passkey>/announce
http://tracker.gaytorrent.ru:2710/<passkey>/announce

All four answer normally, on both the HTTPS port and on 2710. So there is no outage here, and @ianfontinell called it correctly: "no such host is known" is your machine failing to resolve the name, before any connection to us is even attempted.

The one thing that may actually help you: the tracker answers on two different hostnames, tracker.gaytor.rent and tracker.gaytorrent.ru. It is the same tracker behind both. If your provider is filtering one of the two names, the other one often still resolves. So it is worth editing the tracker URL in your client and swapping the hostname, keeping the rest of the URL and your passkey exactly as it is.

Also worth doing either way: redownload the .torrent file from the site and load that one. That always gives you the current announce URL with your passkey in it, which rules out an old file pointing somewhere retired.

@Nothinglose if that still leaves you stuck, I can dig further, but I need a bit more than "not working":

The exact announce URL your client shows in the torrent's tracker tab, with the passkey part replaced by xxxx before you post it.
Which of the two hostnames you tried, and whether either of them resolves for you.
Roughly which country and which provider you are on, and whether you are on a VPN.

Post that and I will take it from there.