atronix Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 My Utorrent client keeps downloading excess data.. this time it has downloaded an excess 2 gigabytes.WTF?http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z225/pandatronix/utorrentbug.jpgHas anyone got any ideas why this might be happening?
Newtype Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 I have the same problem with one of my torrents. This seems to only happen with big sized torrents, like 3 gigs +. There's a good chance that your download won't complete at the end, it's gonna be stuck at 99.9% or something, like mine, because there are pieces that are not downloading properly and they always restart downloading over and over again, that's why you have downloaded more than the filesize. I think it's a bug with uTorrent because this is not the first time this happens to me.
jewelisheaven Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 What he didn't show was the General tab.In it, it shows TONS of bad data I'd gather...One cannot avoid bad peers who send corrupted data without ipfilter.dat.
Newtype Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 I found the solution! Well...for me at least. The problem was that I have a D-Link Router and DMZ option was enabled. I disabled it and forwarded the port for uTorrent in my router settings with the help of www.portforward.com and it worked, the torrent finished downloading!
jewelisheaven Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 ahhh good to hear.Yup DMZ is bad on some routers.
atronix Posted December 15, 2007 Author Report Posted December 15, 2007 yeah it does say 2gig wasted.. how can I tell which i.p's are sending the corrupted data? p.s. I dont use dmz and I have correctly forwarded my ports.
jewelisheaven Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 Well you can enable the Hasherr column under Peers tab.That will give you a running tally of who has sent bad pieces.
Newtype Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 Most of the time it's not someone who's using uTorrent or Azureus. It's probably someone using BitComet, BitLord or LibTorrent. In my case, once I disabled the DMZ option, the person who was uploading to me with LibTorrent wasn't there anymore and the torrent completed.
ajones81 Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 The Logger tab should finger the naughty IPs too so you can spank them but good...
Switeck Posted December 15, 2007 Report Posted December 15, 2007 Newtype said: "The problem was that I have a D-Link Router and DMZ option was enabled."Did you discover this as a result of testing, or reading µTorrent's FAQ that states that DMZ doesn't work well on D-Link Routers? exact link:http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#I_get_tons_of_hashfails_on_my_torrents_and_the_torrent_never_finishes
atronix Posted December 16, 2007 Author Report Posted December 16, 2007 The bad i.p's have offically been spanked! thanks for your help everyone!
Switeck Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 Care to list their ip range?...because if they're bad for you, they're probably bad for everyone!
jewelisheaven Posted December 16, 2007 Report Posted December 16, 2007 Any range which WHOIS lookups to being assigned/reassigned to Net2EZ, MediaSentry, and other organizations which actively pollute the pool can be added.
Switeck Posted December 17, 2007 Report Posted December 17, 2007 They usually route to 'unassigned' ips. VERY rarely (except for the 38.x.x.x groups) will you see ips with WHOIS values as something other than either nothing OR the parent ISP company.It is actually a LOT harder to find them...than to just let them find you. But I think you can understand why I don't want that.
jewelisheaven Posted December 17, 2007 Report Posted December 17, 2007 I'm not saying that is how I made my list. In-fact however if you see peers with unusual characteristics a WHOIS search has always returned either "normal" peers or suspect peers.The best is when you see a WHOIS lookup go to non-portable and below (at the bottom where most people wouldn't look) "re-assigned"). That's how I grew my list from 48 to 54 ranges.You know I haven't seen the 38/8 block in FOREVER. I forget was that showtime?The most recent registration I've found I think was June of this year of a re-assigned /24 to a company which I don't want to even connect to due to the invariable spam of being included in their botnet pool for incoming connection attempts. This is due to my router not just dropping requests (it's too old for that). It responds to all of the no-port or non-port messages. Needless to say my log goes from 3-4 hour retention to < 10 minutes when those types of peers get a valid connection to me and it doesn't stop for at least 2 days after they can't connect to me anymore.
Switeck Posted December 19, 2007 Report Posted December 19, 2007 jewelisheaven said: "That's how I grew my list from 48 to 54 ranges."Can you email a copy of that list?
jewelisheaven Posted December 19, 2007 Report Posted December 19, 2007 I'm not sure if I'd have any different ones than you but sure It's all from my experience, and it even has comments.Feel free to return the love
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