February 04, 2012

NyaaTorrent Trackers down

I was just checking Nyaatorrents, and in the shoutbox they mention that the trackers are down.  Torrents are still available, of course, and DHT seems to be serving me well.  It's a little annoying because I finally figured out how to get the ratio tracker to know it's me.

What's even MORE annoying though is that a lot of torrents are substituting UDP trackers.  Oh, I know it's supposed to be the "Wave of the future" and less bandwidth intensive (really now, how much traffic is there on a tracker vs your peers?).  But the problem is, everyone insists on putting these UDP trackers on Port 80.  Damn near all of them.  And unfortunately, my ISP blocks UDP specifically on port 80 supposedly for some network management purpose.  They even admitted it openly.

It's worse on EZTV though.  Torrents you get through them, they strip off all other trackers and substitute FOUR UDP trackers on port 80, and one on 8080 which never responds.  At least with those, you can go into uTorrent and dump on a whole bunch of other trackers and get the results you should.

I should probably just go to btJunkie instead, but they don't have RSS or the other episode management tools that EZTV has.

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