I use transmission torrent client which comes with Ubuntu. Works for regular torrents I find on internet but when I load sample.torrent from the challenge it doesn’t work. It fails to connect to any peers. Why is that?
@lfmunoz Our end-to-end tests use aria2 to verify that everything is working as expected. Could you give aria2 a try as well?
I just tested the mac version of Transmission, and it successfully downloaded the sample.txt. However, I couldn’t get Xunlei (a BitTorrent client) to connect to any peers, like your situation with Transmission on Ubuntu.
For your reference, here’s how I investigated the issue:
- I used Wireshark to capture the communication between Xunlei and our tracker, and found that the response from our tracker contained no
peers:
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I inspected the request to our tracker and found some discrepancies in the params:
- Xunlei set the
leftparam as 0, and - added an additional
event: startedparam
- Xunlei set the
- After I manually modified
leftto any non-zero value, our tracker would respond withpeersonce again.
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