@MrMazda said in A connection attempt failed in download:

I have been keeping an eye on the situation and have noticed that at times, many torrents will time out, but after some time, come back to life. I have notified the sysop of this.

Thank you.

There are side effects to this issue besides hassles with downloading and missing out on opportunities to seed. If the tracker can't be contacted again for a torrent after a download finishes, the site doesn't know that the torrent has been downloaded, for example there is no voting prompt near the top of the torrent's page. I expect this also means that if a torrent is downloaded fully during a Freeleech period, but the tracker can't be contacted again for that torrent until after the Freeleech period ends, the download may not register as free. I've tried testing this, but the torrent I downloaded to test has not been able to connect and update the tracker after download finished and the Freeleech time for it has expired.

@MrMazda said in A connection attempt failed in download:

I have been keeping an eye on the situation and have noticed that at times, many torrents will time out, but after some time, come back to life. I have notified the sysop of this.

Thank you.

There are side effects to this issue besides hassles with downloading and missing out on opportunities to seed. If the tracker can't be contacted again for a torrent after a download finishes, the site doesn't know that the torrent has been downloaded, for example there is no voting prompt near the top of the torrent's page. I expect this also means that if a torrent is downloaded fully during a Freeleech period, but the tracker can't be contacted again for that torrent until after the Freeleech period ends, the download may not register as free. I've tried testing this, but the torrent I downloaded to test has not been able to connect and update the tracker after download finished and the Freeleech time for it has expired.

Does anyone know what's with the site being down at the top of every hour? Starts almost exactly at the hour mark, usually it is down less than a minute. Does the site use some component that needs to be bounced that often to work well?

Asking more because I'm curious than anything since of course it can be worked around.

Thanks