Torrents not working - tracker offline

Hi,

 

I am trying to download the latest version 3 HD Mesh from alpilotx using torrents. Unfortunately as the tracker is offline (http://torus.flightsim.com:9000/announce) it is not working.

 

Is there a status page for this and, more importantly, an ETA of when it will be up and running again?

 

Thanks,

Stephen

A tracker should not be offline, just users might not be online to seed including the uploader which is normal for new torrents. Just try to get an alternate link if exists and all will work.

It is unavailable if 'offline' is not the correct phraseology. I downloaded half of the v3 files yesterday and they all were fine. Today they are going nowhere and the other half of the torrents I downloaded are all at 0% trying to find any peers.

Just read on the X-Plane.org forum that the tracker crashing is a known issue by the Flightsim.com admins and they will restart it when they can.

I too have been downloading AND seeding the complete set 98 files and I am seeing the same thing. I will continue to seed and hope all will do the same. I have V2 installed so I can be patient!

I could only reach it a few times during the last 2 days. I managed to download most of Europe, but still have a few files missing with no peers as the tracker is down (rtorrent counts 213 failed connections to the tracker, only 8 successful).

 

My first idea was to enable DHT and peer exchange but this isn't working either - apparently torrents/trackers can be marked "private" which suppresses DHT and peer exchange on clients which are implementing the protocol correctly. If the tracker is known to be unstable, wouldn't it be better to make those torrents public, so DHT and peer exchange can help when the tracker is down? Or at least automate restarting the tracker once per hour?

 

Of course I can download the remaining files (only 3-4GB left) via HTTP but I would prefer if I could contribute to spreading them as well which doesn't work with neither a working tracker nor DHT or peer exchange.

Keep your torrent downloader running and the files will slowly download and seed. I have about 15 completed files since yesterday.

FYI, We have been working on the problem all weekend.

Our original server has worked fine for the last year but

with these torrents, our tracker is getting overloaded and

crashing. We are working to get it running on a larger

server but we are having to compile a ton of stuff to get it

to run. The work is progressing slowly but surely.

 

I did try the option of multiple trackers, but most of the open ones

don't work reliably or are filled with piracy stuff. If anyone knows

of a public first class tracker service, please feel free to PM me and let me

know.

 

I personally apologize for the delays but am working furiously to get

it going again.

 

Best Regards,

Rick

Update: We have installed new .torrent files that don't require our tracker

to operate. Please download a new torrent file from the file library if you

are having problems and you will be successful! Our torrent server will

hopefully be back online later today.

 

Regards,

Rick

The new torrents work great with just DHT and Peer Exchange. Thanks for updating all of them to enable these options and of course thanks in advance for bringing the tracker back up again! :)