Shambler[Bishop Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 When a tracker goes down in the middle of downloading, you can continue downloading so long as uTorrent is kept running, but when it's turned off you have to wait for the tracker to come back up (I think; may be wrong).Is it possible for uTorrent to maintain a local cache of all the peers it is/has been connected to (with an expiry limit of a few days for each peer), so that it can continue downloading/seeding the torrents, even after closing and restarting the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 16, 2009 Report Share Posted June 16, 2009 uTorrent already does...but I think it only does so for public trackers/public torrents.Private trackers don't want you connecting to ANY ips not handed out by their trackers!(How else are they going to have the full logs to report if need be?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shambler[Bishop Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Ah, I see; so is there any way to force uTorrent to maintain a cache of IP's for private trackers as well? (e.g. an advanced setting somewhere)Since the IP's originally come from the private tracker anyway, I don't think it would be problematic in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 You could add peers 1-at-a-time using the add peer feature. (probably trigger a ratio discrepancy with the tracker doing that though!)Otherwise, no with private trackers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streetstopper Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 with non-private torrents, i'd see incoming connections from C. for me, that would be cache.but with private torrents, the ONLY source is T, which i'd take as tracker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 You don't understand the flags correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shambler[Bishop Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 "You could add peers 1-at-a-time using the add peer feature."Yep that's what I've been doing, I saved the peer list to a text file when I made the thread You mention that there will likely be a ratio discrepancy; how exactly would that work? Will my upload/download stats not be registered for that peer? (or just upload, or ?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 Uh, the peers list is cached whether or not the torrent is private. The only thing the private flag prevents is automatic discovery of new peers from sources outside of the tracker. It doesn't mean the client can't maintain its own internal list of peers.And no, IPs not retrieved from the tracker couldn't possible mess around with tracker ratios. If tracker ratios are incorrect, then the tracker is doing something fundamentally wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 I was under the impression that if you're not updating the tracker BUT you're manually connecting to other peers/seeds on private torrent/tracker that the private tracker is not aware of your downloading/uploading except indirectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shambler[Bishop Posted June 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 Oh, so is the peer list only cached while running though? Does it not keep a stored peer cache on the hard drive?I'm definitely losing peer connections after restarting uTorrent, and have to re-add them manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streetstopper Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 my apologies for not understanding the flags correctly, but it was what i saw on the logger tab.i checked the faq but it doesn't mention about IP sources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 The peers list is cached in resume.dat. I looked directly at resume.dat after testing a torrent with the private flag set and shutting µTorrent down, and saw peers in the cache (peers6 key).@Switeck: Sure, the tracker wouldn't know, but that doesn't screw up the tracker ratio. The other clients continue to report their total uploaded/downloaded. If you aren't announcing to the tracker, you aren't screwing up the ratio, just not updating the ratio -- and that can happen to any torrent, private or otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shambler[Bishop Posted June 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 Ultima: Thanks, so does uTorrent not connect to any of the cached peers when the tracker is down, or when it deliberately rejects a connection for a torrent?I'm trying to figure out why I can only get downloads to start again, by adding the peers manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 19, 2009 Report Share Posted June 19, 2009 There is no such limitation. If the peer cache has peers, µTorrent will use them. Why it isn't doing so for you, I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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