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Offline dewayne2k8

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I was downloading now it stopped
« on: April 14, 2010, 01:13:25 PM »
I was downloading Blood+ however this morning on my utorrent i am getting a "socket operation  was attempted to an unreachable host" error.  I have the ports forwarded and wide open and no firewall blocking the utorrent... i wonder what made it stop over night??

Offline Blanchimont

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2010, 01:39:28 PM »
Do you have PeerGuardian? If you do, disable it and update the torrents and see if the tracker message changes. If it does, edit it to allow bakabt's tracker.

It could also be because of a firewall, especially Bitdefender appears in search results for this error...

Edit; @dewayne2k8 I recommend you switch to PeerBlock, PeerGuardian is severely deprecated... 
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Offline dewayne2k8

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2010, 02:08:51 PM »
Hello! yes thanks to that tip you gave me it is working! however does BakaBT engage in DHT OR peer discovery or exchange? it keeps saying not allowed

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2010, 02:22:31 PM »
that's intended - otherwise we wouldn't be able to track stats. you don't need it anyway as all peers for our torrents are connected with our tracker, thus it is impossible to find any additional peer through dht/peer discovery.

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2010, 04:14:00 PM »
you don't need it anyway as all peers for our torrents are connected with our tracker, thus it is impossible to find any additional peer through dht/peer discovery.

That is incorrect as I understand it. A lot of baka torrents are mirrored on other sites. Not a lot of peers on those, but it is still some. When it used to be totally open it had a huge impact, not so any more.

Offline namaiki

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2010, 04:32:42 PM »
Well, the torrents aren't supposed to be mirrored on any other sites.  :|
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Offline dewayne2k8

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2010, 05:59:50 PM »
If one was to get a torrent that is on baka bt and its on a mirror site, would i stilll get stats for it??

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2010, 07:56:41 PM »
You shouldn't. The torrent should be connected to this tracker only. Yes someone could post the exact same torrent on a different site but they would not be connecting to BakaBT and thus not connecting to its peers and not getting stats or anything for it.

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2010, 08:19:43 PM »
You shouldn't. The torrent should be connected to this tracker only. Yes someone could post the exact same torrent on a different site but they would not be connecting to BakaBT and thus not connecting to its peers and not getting stats or anything for it.

If the torrent contains the public-key, you will be able to connect through bakaBT, but public key is public ;p
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Offline Temuthril

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2010, 10:50:05 PM »
The public key changes monthly anyway.

Offline endlessworld

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2010, 10:20:00 AM »
that's intended - otherwise we wouldn't be able to track stats. you don't need it anyway as all peers for our torrents are connected with our tracker, thus it is impossible to find any additional peer through dht/peer discovery.
i think what you mean is that it is impossible to find an additional peer (in the peers-list on BakaBT) through DHT.
some of us didn't read it like that tho, so it looks incorrect as it is stated

anyways, you can change any .torrent file DLed from BakaBT to DHT enabled without having to make a new .torrent file, and if someone else did the same, you can download BakaBT media without being tracked(though the DHT enabled seeder whom you got it from will not receive upload credit on his account so i doubt anyone would bother seeding with DHT enabled).

open .torrent with a hex editor like this:


on any BakaBT torrent you will see in hex:
37 3a 70 72 69 76 61 74 65 69 31 65 65 65

simply replace that with:
65 65 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30
(or just replace with 'insert mode')

.torrent file now has DHT local peer discovery/exchange enabled :)

uploading BakaBT .torrents to other websites is not against the rules, according to the admins "We see this as site promotion". just be sure only to give out .torrents that you have downloaded while logged out, because .torrent files that you have downloaded while logged in have information linked to your account.
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Offline dewayne2k8

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2010, 12:56:23 PM »
That is true, which is why i was asking about DHT, don't get me wrong, i love BakaBT but however some torrent have small seeders to some good anime and i was just wondering if i looked up a outside source to just speed up the download.

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2010, 02:24:17 PM »
anyways, you can change any .torrent file DLed from BakaBT to DHT enabled without having to make a new .torrent file, and if someone else did the same, you can download BakaBT media without being tracked(though the DHT enabled seeder whom you got it from will not receive upload credit on his account so i doubt anyone would bother seeding with DHT enabled).

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.torrent file now has DHT local peer discovery/exchange enabled :)
Users trying this without first testing the torrent file should note that doing this changes the torrent hash (which is based on the data in the info section; this includes the private torrent flag) and makes it invalid for use with our tracker. Go ahead and try it out, just don't ask us why you get an unregistered torrent error when you enable DHT on our torrents.

And yes, you can upload our public-key torrents to other torrent sites, we have nothing against that.

Offline dewayne2k8

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2010, 03:23:13 PM »
ah man i forgot about the hash! yeah i don't want that type of headache! lol

Offline endlessworld

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Re: I was downloading now it stopped
« Reply #14 on: April 15, 2010, 03:47:40 PM »
what i said is still of use.

sometimes torrent files can take a long time to be registered to the BakaBT tracker, even long after they are approved o_O

also(or should i say 'only') good during tracker downtime.
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