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Roger3p:
Okay, I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone (I know, it's funny I used that analogy because of my avatar right? No? Lame!? *sigh* I'll try harder next time).

Problem:
I keep getting response errors for bakabt and a couple of other trackers. Happens on http and udp. "Response 0" type errors.

Details:
1) I have done nothing (no updates, settings changes, etc) since changing OS a few weeks back but this just started a few hours ago.
2) I have eliminated tracker errors because it makes no sense that so many go down simultaneously, including public bt.
3) Recently, last hour or so, I am still getting this error but I seem to have found peers for some bakabt torrents (which shouldn't work for bakabt torrents because I can't use PEX or LPD for bakabt torrents AFAIK).
4) Bakabt is the one that goes down the most.

Specs:
OS: AntiX Linux (It's a Debian Testing based, lightweight distro).
Client: Transmission 2.52
Router: NetGear

Any theories on what's going on here? Did I divide by zero? Networking isn't really my field so I'm a little confused here. Tks in advance since I'm about ready to go to bed.

Freedom Kira:
Temporarily try another client and see if your torrents work there. When I use Transmission, I don't feel like it's very... solid. It could be the problem.

Deluge and qBitTorrent are known to be pretty solid for Linux users. Personally I use KTorrent, which works decently in Ubuntu, but I'm not sure about your distro, because it was built in KDE.

Lillymon:

--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on February 01, 2013, 04:55:20 AM ---Personally I use KTorrent, which works decently in Ubuntu, but I'm not sure about your distro, because it was built in KDE.

--- End quote ---
This part of your comment doesn't seem to make any sense, you start talking about distributions then end talking about a desktop environment.

Either way, if KTorrent is in the repositories for your distribution then it should work fine. You'll need to install a load of additional libraries if you're not using KDE and it may not look pretty if your window manager doesn't integrate Qt applications with native look & feel, but functionality should not be impaired. qBitTorrent would have the same look & feel problems since it uses Qt but doesn't require as many additional libraries as KTorrent. Deluge uses GTK+ and so has the opposite problem, getting native look & feel on my KDE system was an unbelievable pain but it would look fine on GNOME, Xfce, or any other environment where GTK+ is native.

Roger3p:
Thanks for the info. Luckily, the problem seems to have stopped. Still, I'm curious to try a new client at some point (on that long todo list) and I want to test it if I get a repeat of today. I'll have a look at Deluge, qBittorrent and Ktorrent and see which is the lightest weight.
Maybe I'll give the ISP a call tomorrow and ask if they've been "upgrading" - their euphemism for "we broke something and had to fix it".

An aside: Am running Fluxbox, btw. Have no "desktop", just a wallpaper and a 16px toolbar displaying my current "desktop", open windows and a system clock. Everything is either on my r-click menu and my very commonly used stuff has keybindings. I'm a compulsive minimalist, lol. I presume I have gtk+ libraries because Skype works/looks fine.

Bozobub:
If this happens again, try power-cycling your router (wait at least 30 sec. before you plug it back in); I'm willing to bet at least $0.25 that'll fix your issue.  Most consumer-grade routers don't really have enough RAM to support the routing table, especially if you use P2P heavily and/or have a cheaper.  Furthermore, many routers keep IPs on the routing table far too long.  For example, Linksys WRT54Gs keep IPs for 24 or 48 hours (I forget which) — which is utterly insane — and after version 4, they halved the RAM.

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