Topic: Torrent question - no firewall, but leechers aren't seeing me

[greenone]

Ok, this is weird...I saw that this torrent was stranded with four leechers, so I decided to re-seed:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=11313

I'm pretty sure I'm not firewalled - I'm behind a router but I've forwarded the ports - yet the four leechers aren't downloading from me. That is, I show up in the seeds list, but there's no movement going on whatsoever.

Any tips?

[fozzy]

Well i don't see your seed but it appears no one is downloading anything at the moment b/c they are all at different percentages and all w/o firewall.  If they were truly hung they should all be at the same percentage.  looks like the leechers may be having issues.

[chase]

if you are running windows XP SP2, make sure the windows firewall is also open on the correct ports.  (6881-6889)

[greenone]

Well i don't see your seed but it appears no one is downloading anything at the moment b/c they are all at different percentages and all w/o firewall. If they were truly hung they should all be at the same percentage. looks like the leechers may be having issues.

Well, there's a bug with bt.etree in that people who are firewalled aren't displayed as such...so that may have something to do with it.

I'm on Mac OS X.3.8...so that rules out XP.

[greenone]

All fixed...I'm a doofus. Our IPs from the router aren't static, so my IP had changed without me noticing it. I was still getting enough connectivity from un-firewalled leechers on other torrents that I wasn't necessarily acting firewalled...

[ethan]

Ok, this is weird...I saw that this torrent was stranded with four leechers, so I decided to re-seed:

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=11313

I'm pretty sure I'm not firewalled - I'm behind a router but I've forwarded the ports - yet the four leechers aren't downloading from me. That is, I show up in the seeds list, but there's no movement going on whatsoever.

Any tips?

You can't trust bt.etree.org to tell you if you're firewalled any more. It's been broken for a few weeks.

Check out the following peer list 33 seeders and 10 leachers and it says they're all open. I doubt suddenly 100% of people have a clue.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=12459&dllist=1#seeders

pm me  I can test your connection for firewall.

-e