I’d recommend I2P.
But sure, you can use Tribler if you prefer just don’t set yourself to be an exit node if you’re worried about other users’ torrent traffic going out your own internet connection. Been years since I tinkered with it back then Tribler felt even slower than I2P torrenting and the Tribler torrent client would crash every few days/weeks, I sort of gave up on it after a while but maybe it’s better nowadays.
I2P works fine, qBittorrent supports it now too. There are earlier posts in this community discussing it.
Like you said it’s mostly a popularity problem, less users = less seeds/peers.
Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?
Not sure if it’s exactly what you want but I’ve used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I’ve never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.
Agreed, I always leave everything seeding and also disable queuing. Leaving “Global maximum number of connections” at default setting (can be set lower) along with configuring Global Rate Limits Upload/Download to something appropriate works perfectly.
Torrent clients are smart enough to juggle the active torrents and share the allowed bandwidth between them without you having to micro-manage the whole thing.
The qbit logs just say “torrent removed” without further explanation
So the logs don’t have the torrent finished line right? e.g. It never logs "Torrent download finished. Torrent: “YOUR-TORRENT-NAME” ?
If so my guess is what the other commenter mentioned, try changing the settings not to remove the torrent & see how it goes.
To be fair that would help out a ton for the less technical users that aren’t too familiar with needing to browse and click through a ton of different menus just to get to something they can watch for free. This kind of stuff gets challenging for the older non-computing crowd.
And honestly if these remotes are going to have a default “Netflix”, etc. button they may as well have a button for the default Google free channels.
Status is firewalled and theres no DHT
When you select the torrent in qBittorrent and click the Trackers tab does DHT display “working” ?
Status is firewalled and theres no DHT but the download works and there are no errors in the log.
I suspect you had it partially correct with your earlier test. One thing is that DHT works via UDP (from what I understand) while non-DHT torrents can be TCP or UDP. So I sort of suspect that you kind of had it half working with the iptables rule earlier but you only had it working for TCP, hence only TCP torrents get through which means no DHT and uTP torrenting.
So your solution is one/both of
https://ittavern.com/notes/podman-publish-udp-port-to-host/
I looked at an i2p torrent I was playing with too and its showing the trackers are non responsive now, but theres no error in the logs.
I2P is a very different configuration, best not to compare that to regular clearnet torrenting. qBittorrent doesn’t suport DHT over I2P so you’ll never see DHT working in that configuration.
What does qBittorrent say when you load a public torrent and click the Trackers tab for that torrent? In a normal network - if these are enabled in qBittorrent itself and the network isn’t blocking torrents/DHT traffic - you should see DHT / PeX / LSD listed as “Working”.
I know nothing about podman but perhaps DHT status will be a clue to figuring out what’s going on.
PS - If you need a test public torrent the Linux Mint downloads are useful https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=319
EDIT: Also when you start up qBittorrent try viewing the execution log (enabled under View / Log), one of the startup lines in the log is your DHT support that will tell you if it is enabled/disabled. I don’t know if the log later shows anything else re: DHT issues but could be worth a look for that too.
FYI Dorsey left Bluesky
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
Currently Jay Graber is the CEO and has the largest ownership in Bluesky
For private trackers you would use the standard qBittorrent else risk a ban due to using a modified torrent client. Or at least double-check the private tracker’s rules to verify that they allow qBittorrent Enhanced Edition.
For non-private general public torrenting you would still use the standard qBittorrent client unless you specifically want those additional features in qBittorrent Enhanced Edition. From their github https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition
Features:
- Auto Ban Xunlei, QQ, Baidu, Xfplay, DLBT and Offline downloader
- Auto Ban Unknown Peer from China Option (Default: OFF)
- Auto Update Public Trackers List (Default: OFF)
- Auto Ban BitTorrent Media Player Peer Option (Default: OFF)
- Peer whitelist/blacklist
IMO if you really hate torrent peers from China that much it’s much, much easier just to do a geoip ban in any standard torrent client. e.g. create a IP Filter .dat .p2p or .p2b file with Chinese IP addresses and load it into the torrent client’s IP filter.
What’s going on in Quebec?
The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.
Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.
My network has reset several times and I’ve narrowed it down to an apparent DDOS attack
It’s not. You will need to lower your torrent client’s incoming connections limit and/or set lower limits to your incoming/outgoing bandwidth in your torrent client. It is clear your network router is unable to handle too much torrent traffic hitting it at the same time, hence the issues you are experiencing.
For qB
Tools / Options / Connection / Global Maximum Number Of Connections
Tools / Options / Speed / Global Rate Limits
There’s no specific number to enter there, you just have to experiment a bit and set lower numbers until the problem goes away and your network is stable.
shutting down the client doesn’t help
It will, eventually. It does take a bit for other torrent clients to realize you’re no longer online and stop sending you traffic / sharing your IP with other peers.
The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.
People still use the eMule client but nowadays the community version is the version that gets some updates
https://www.emule-project.com/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download
https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/
But technically any eMule / KAD compatible client can connect to the servers and download/upload to users there e.g. Mldonkey is another client being used.
It’s been a few years since I was last active on there but back then there was still a healthy amount of users and activity, I suspect it’s still going strong.
Yup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe).
I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)
Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).
That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it’s more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.
Syncthing is not just for LAN use. Even their homepage mentions transmitting data over the internet
I’ve been using it to sync devices over the internet for years. It’s also how people use it to sync from say their desktop to their phones, remote server, etc.
If you watch your network firewall Syncthing does reach out to servers on the internet to help it find other devices so e.g. if you enter the other device’s ID (example ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG) it can reach out over the internet to find that specific ID to pair with. I think Syncthing uses a sort of DHT resolver to find other devices, I know on my firewall I had to whitelist Syncthing’s servers to make it work.
I was going to try to link you some references but their forums seem to have connection issues at the moment, you may want to search around later if you’re interested how Syncthing works over the internet.
I’d say it’s worth it. Another bonus with your own domain is that you basically have an infinite amount of receiving email addresses you can use for no extra charge e.g. you can just keep making up new email addresses @ yourdomain whenever you need to register to a new website or whatever.
Drastically cuts down on the amount of spam you get at your main/personal address(es). Also helps whenever a website or whatever has a data breach, just means your random made up email address was leaked and it’s easy enough to mark that as spam going forward.
While I personally prefer not to use YTS releases due to their low quality, and can’t seem to find a legitimate YTS link
Anything YIFY/YTS related that exists today is clone, YIFY himself got into legal trouble and left all this stuff behind years ago. Nowadays the main active YTS site that most people use is run by the same group that stole the EZTV site.
e.g.
https://torrentfreak.com/yify-speaks-confessions-of-a-movie-piracy-icon-160424/
https://torrentfreak.com/yify-yts-shuts-down-the-end-of-a-piracy-icon-151030/
https://torrentfreak.com/found-a-new-yts-yify-site-its-a-fake-151104/
The good thing is that the public torrent itself can still be found at BTDigg and BT4G. Currently seems to be unseeded but with any luck someone will re-seed it for you. Might be worth keeping it loaded in your torrent client just in case.
Or if you ever manage to get the data from somewhere else you can re-seed it yourself for others to download.