On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:49 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have long used Transmission, even though it is lacking in features. I > like Ktorrent better, but it doesn't work well in Gnome. A couple times > in the past I tried Azureus, but could never get it to work. That was on > Ubuntu. Now I am on Fedora 11 and decided to try it again. After much > hassle I finally got 4.0.0.3 working. (But don't suggest updating to > 4.3 because the updater just crashes.) > > So here I am trying to download a file by torrent with my newly > installed Vuze. Vuze can't get the tracker to respond. I left it > trying for an hour with no luck. > > So I stopped the torrent in Vuze and launched Transmission. > Transmission also failed to get the tracker to respond, but in spite of > not getting a response from the tracker, Transmission started > downloading the pieces. That was half an hour ago and it has downloaded > half the file, at a rate of 200 KB/s. > > I am very muy mucho confused and Google isn't helping. How can > Transmission download the pieces without communicating with the > tracker? If Transmission doesn't need the tracker, why does Vuze just > sit and do nothing until it gets an OK from the tracker? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I'm guessing Vuze doesn't support DHT which doesn't require a tracker. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
