tracker

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:05 pm

but who will track for my torrents ?
i am new to this and i have more than 400 dvd rips on my terabyte hdd

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:26 pm

This is a quote from Ozperson in another forum:

If you join a torrent site/s eg. TorrentBox (Isohunt's sister site) and click on upload it will list a number of trackers which you can put in your torrent.

Also this sticky shows how to make a torrent and has a big list of open/public trackers which can be included in your torrent:
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=102023

If you are using UTorrent leave a blank line between each tracker.
It's a good idea to put a number of trackers in the list, because sometimes they go off-line, I usually include 5 trackers in mine.

These are some trackers I suggest:
http://tracker.torrentbox.com:2710/announce (if you are uploading to TorrentBox)
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://a.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:18 pm

some trackers require you to upload your torrent to them to be used

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:27 am

Have some newbie question here:

Any restriction on how much tracker we put inside the .torrent?
Is there any utility that we can run to check each tracker?

Thx.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:08 am

i put only one tracker. hope it works well.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:46 am

romeotengahmalam wrote:

Any restriction on how much tracker we put inside the .torrent?

The number of trackers is not limited, in my opinion a minimum of 3 trackers up to a maximum of 10 is a good number.

romeotengahmalam wrote:

Is there any utility that we can run to check each tracker?

I don't know of any utility to check that a tracker is working, however if you keep a few downloaded torrents in your bittorrent client which have a large number of trackers you can start seeding for a minute to check if the trackers are working, also this site may help:

http://.(info)/p/tlist.htm

Note: not all of the ones listed on the Beehive site are public, many are private and will not allow unregistered peers access to uploading, or downloading or both.

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:15 am

Aaaah nice a list of tracker so i must put them into the torrent before upload right?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:48 am

some1-else wrote:

Aaaah nice a list of tracker so i must put them into the torrent before upload right?

Thats correct, a torrent needs at least 3 trackers in my opinion, more is even better.