Yes, the torrents are started, not queued. As I mentioned in the first post, the tracker status is offline (timed out).

I have pinged the tracker as you have suggested. The IP address is 77.247.178.189. All packets in the trials are received. Average round trip time is 387ms.

Yes to both. I can connect to the main site with the vpn, and the tracker works without my vpn.

Yes, the other trackers are all working.

Hi guys

I am a new member here and I need some help with using my VPN with the tracker as per subject. I am using WiTopia as my VPN, which I realise not many of you might know of. However, the problem I have is that whenever my VPN is switched on, the gaytorrent tracker does not connect successfully, giving a offline (timed out) error. Everything works fine (upload/download) when my VPN is turned off. My bittorent port is open and is being forwarded on my router.

I'm relatively new to using VPNs so I will try to list as much information as I can which may be relevant:
OpenVPN Protocol is used, encrypted with UDP 1194 Blowfish. Proxy is not being used. DNS is set to Auto.

Any help I can get is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.