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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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You are awesome.
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@OKCancel hi sorry for the late reply. I use ExpressVPN currently. It works for qbittorrent but i cannot get it to work for my usual Utorrent for some reason. I read somewhere that I have to bind address or something for it to work. Too technical for me to do but i will explore it eventually someday.
Also I got tired of tweaking the settings related to DNS and stuff, it was a sleepless night for me. That was why i bought a VPN subscription.
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@clancytom Thanks for your response.
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@frankdavao48 Where did you change your DNS settings? On your computer or on your ISP settings page?
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@blueorange22 confirmed for ISP C here. huhuhu
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@blueorange22 just the PC's settings. I just changed adapter settings of my network and used google public DNS for preferred and alternative DNS.
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Staff here, and I can confirm what you have worked out between you.
The tracker is up and has been throughout — right now it is serving over two million seeders, and announces from the rest of the world are arriving normally. Nothing changed on our side.
What we see from the support desk matches this thread exactly: since roughly the start of the month, members in the Philippines report the tracker as offline or timed out while the website itself loads fine, and every one of them who has tested it finds that a VPN or mobile data brings the tracker straight back. That combination — site reachable, tracker not, VPN fixes it — means the block is between you and us, at the provider, not in your client and not on our end.
frostycab's test is the right one. Open https://tracker.gaytor.rent/stmdd/ in a browser. If it loads, your provider is not blocking the tracker hostname and something else is going on. If it will not load, or only loads through a VPN, that is the answer.
Two things that help:
A VPN works, but it has to be running while your torrent client is running, not only in the browser — the client makes its own connections.
Changing your DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 sometimes gets past this, if the block is at the DNS level. If they filter deeper than that, it will not, and the VPN is the way.
There is nothing we can change from here that would undo a block your provider has put in place. If it lifts, you will simply see the tracker come back on its own.
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I'm blocked again, using google dns. When testing https://tracker.gaytor.rent/stmdd/ results to "the connection has timed out." I actually have trouble accessing some sites at work last week, same time I encountered the issue on the trackers. I've seen some posts online as well, that some people are blocked and cant access specific work related sites/apps. Can't be a coincidence, this ISP is sht. As somebody who is working from home, I can't rely on this ISP. I am switching.
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I'm blocked again, using google dns. When testing https://tracker.gaytor.rent/stmdd/ results to "the connection has timed out." I actually have trouble accessing some sites at work last week, same time I encountered the issue on the trackers. I've seen some posts online as well, that some people are blocked and cant access specific work related sites/apps. Can't be a coincidence, this ISP is sht. As somebody who is working from home, I can't rely on this ISP. I am switching.
Yes... It sounds like they may be trying to force DNS requests to redirect to their servers specifically, which aren't always answering requests reliably.
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