Chryss Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 This may not be a utorrent issue, but I'm trying to narrow down the problem, so if nothing else, need to rule this out.Last night I started getting offline (tracker timed out) messages for one of my private sites. It works at first (or on utor restart) but goes offline as soon as the tracker tries to update. The RSS also times out (very quickly I might add). Now I've verified with the site there is no problem with their tracker or RSS. I am not having this issue with any other trackers or RSS feeds, including private ones. I updated today to the final release of 1.8.1 and, while the problem seems slightly more intermittent with the tracker, it still shows offline quite often, and the RSS continues not to work at all. I've run a traceroute to the torrent site, which comes back fine, and there is no DNS resolve issue.Any ideas?* as an aside, and probably completely unrelated, but when I tried to update through utor I kept getting unable to connect to update server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Yeah, your security/firewall/AV software is blocking things. Remove and re-add rules for utorrent.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryss Posted October 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 except I don't have a firewall (other than the router) or any security software, so there's nothing to add an exception to. this also started prior to updating utorrent, I updated in an attempt to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 If the problem isn't with the site it's at your end. Your ISP can be blocking your connections... Or your modem is unable to handle the load you're putting on it. What are your Ctrl-G speed guide settings? What is your Ctrl-P > Advanced > net.max_halfopen set to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryss Posted October 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 My speed settings are set to switeck's suggestions for 1mbit upload ( I actually have 2m up, but like to keep it lower). Net max half open is set to 4, and there are 4 open. None of those TCP errors in the windows log about exceeding connections. I don't think I'm being blocked. I can get to the torrent website, and none of my other torrent traffic or rss feeds are having this issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Please upgrade to 1.8.1 stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryss Posted October 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 I did that already before I posted here It didn't helputorrent 1.8.1 current build 12616 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Pick which of these apply to you:using...wireless networkingUSB network cardBelkin or D-Link Routerolder Linksys router without 3rd party firmwareZone AlarmNOD32 security softwareKaspersky security softwareIf your networking software or hardware has any weaknesses, even the 300 global connections my speed guide "recommends" at 1 megabit/second upload may be total overkill...causing just the problems you're having. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryss Posted October 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 D-link router, dgl 4100. I'm going to insert the mandatory I've never had this issue before comment, and also note again that it is only one tracker and RSS out of 6 that I'm having this issue with. The RSS doesn't connect at all and the tracker will start upon closing and re-opening utorrent, but then die usually with the second update. This is a small private tracker, never above 40-50 peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Well, try this. http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992#p258231You might just be crashing out the router, or it's starting to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chryss Posted October 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 ok, my router is not on the 'bad list' if that's what you were referring to with the link. The router is only 6 months old and I'm having zero issues with anything else - streaming shoutcast server, mmog's, chat clients, and every other tracker/rss feed. would a hardware issue really cause a problem with just this one small tracker/rss feed and nothing else (much bigger trackers, bandwidth intensive games, etc.?) I really do appreciate all the help and I hope I'm not being too much of a p.i.t.a lol**UPDATEWell, bit of an update. It is starting to look like a DNS issue, even though the website name was resolving. I'm on Charter and they are notorious for these bizarre DNS issues. After switching to a different DNS the tracker finally came back, but now I've lost pirate bay lol. Thanks again for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Try disabling Resolve IPs in uTorrent's PEERS window. (right-click in the PEERS window with an active torrent showing peers/seeds.) That should at least reduce the DNS lookups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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