s4phyr Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Hi everyone, I am fairly new to using torrents and have encountered a problem. I have been on vacation for about a month and haven't used the client in that time. Now, when I've opened it and tried to continue seeding, the status bar of every torrent is red and all of the trackers show a "not allowed" status.Also, when I have clicked "check for updates", I got an error message saying "Unable to connect Bittorent update server".Could anyone give me a suggestion as to what to do? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 "not allowed" status is that the torrent is flagged to only use an actual tracker. There is another line with the actual tracker address (not DHT/Peer Exchange/Local Peer discovery) and the actual tracker status you're getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s4phyr Posted January 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Hi Harold, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. The actual tracker status is offline (timed out). I'm not sure if it matters in this issue but when I ran a test through the setup guide, I've found the following regarding the network: "port is not open (you are still able to download)." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Chances are you either have something blocking or the particular tracker for those torrents is dead. Do torrents from http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s4phyr Posted January 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Nope, when I try to download the torrent I get an error saying "This webpage is not available". (I get that in the case of all of them... ) Any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 You're being blocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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