Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Hi guys. It's been a while.Anyway, after that recent earthquake in Taiwan, I have lost my access to the DHT network. Had no problems before that. Torrents are now going at creep rate (<10KB/s, though to be fair it was a weak one).It is probably the earthquake cutting too many cables, but I decided to post here to check.I'm worried about the possibility that our ISP in HK has seen fit to take this opportunity to impose a "temporary" (which may turn permanent) bandwidth restriction on torrent traffic - of the type certain ISPs (like Rogers) elsewhere had already implemented. As it is, even if the network is fine I'm restraining from downloading things for the next few weeks so as not add to the crowd giving them an excuse to do just that...Any other users of uTorrent (or even Mainline DHT in general) in HK? Anybody managing to log on?Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Have you followed:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=11069 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 1> UDP Traffic needs to be allowed in firewalls for DHT to function.2> (If DHT has worked before) Try adding torrents from http://opensource.depthstrike.com/?category=utorrent so that different DHT bootstrap (login) information can be tried.3> Shut down uT, Remove dht.dat and dht.dat.old from %appdata%\utorrent and retry step 2.1. It has worked before, and I don't even use real firewalls (I do have that wimpy XP firewall and Crossforspeed's firewalls up, but they never bothered me before).2) Tried that. It locked onto precisely one node.3) Just did that to be sure. Now it is saying "Waiting to log in". I've just readded the torrent. It says it acquired one node, again.4) Just flushed the rest of my settings as well. Still not working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Do you have any way to track what traffic is being blocked and what traffic isn't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game90 Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Here in SG we had excatly the same problem, mainline DHT took about 5 days to recover. You should wait a week more and see if comes back then as it takes time for ISPs to re-route traffic. as far as i know HK is quite badly affected as its major links to USA are cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Well, I was thinking that. Then today I realized that BitComet and Azureus seem to have little problem logging into DHT (at least according to the displays). What's different about uTorrent? It uses the same Mainline DHT system as BitComet!Right now, I'm locked onto the very grand total of 1 node (probably myself). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 µTorrent uses router.utorrent.com as a DHT bootstrap, which might make a difference. You're not using an IP blocker, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 No, not using an IP blocker. Just the CfossSpeed firewall, which never gave problems before, and the XP default firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkh7819 Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 We get the same problem in Hong Kong (not surprisingly).By testing with a trackerless torrent, I found out that uTorrent's DHT doesn't work, while that of BitComet works(I didn't try Azureus). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuaki Shimazaki Posted January 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 What IP does router.utorrent.com use. I used this to check where and it replied that it was 72.20.34.145, and when I typed it in, I was sent right to uTorrent's homepage. If this is correct, then I'm definitely not blocking router.utorrent.com, so why is it not logging on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 TBH, I'm not sure what the IP happens to be ;\Really, though, since it appears to be happening to multiple people, I'd go with Game90's advice for the moment (yes, that means I'm pretty much out of ideas right now xD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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