On Monday 10 December 2007, Andrew Moise wrote:
> On 12/10/07, Harold Feit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What bittorrent client is being used? There are some advanced features
> > in place that not all clients support.
>
> I'm using btdownloadcurses from the bittorrent package in Debian
> unstable. Aside from the fact that "advanced features" not in the
> official bittorrent client should not be required IMHO, it looks like
> it's a more basic problem than that. Running strace on the download
> shows that the connection to the tracker is indeed being refused:
>
> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(9800),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("142.68.79.54")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection
> refused)It would seem that one of the failover trackers is currently not available, and since you're client doesn't support the advanced features, it's not able to use the other trackers. Other clients which can however, will be able to switch to another tracker, and thus recover from a failing tracker. Therefor it would seem prudent to integrate the failover trackers in the torrents, since old clients won't be able to connect to a tracker which is down anyways, but newer clients are able to make use of the extra info provided in the .torrent file. Mike
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