[CentOS] Can't connect to torrent tracker

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Dec 19 10:35:04 UTC 2007


John R Pierce wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:46 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>>  
>>> William L. Maltby wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I'm running a port scan right now. So far, http and rsync are the only
>>>> porst found open. The torrent file show port 6969 - but I don't know
>>>> for
>>>> sure if that represents the source port or a port I'm supposed to use
>>>> because I don't have the layout of the torrent file. But I do see this
>>>> in the torrent file:
>>>>
>>>>     d8:announce39:http://torrent.centos.org:6969/announce13: ...
>>>>   
> 
> ah. lets backup.
> 
> # nmap -sT -p6969 -vv torrent.centos.org
> ...
> Interesting ports on 66.147.238.146:
> PORT     STATE  SERVICE
> 6969/tcp closed acmsoda
> 
> ...
> 
> appears the tracker is down.

This is now fixed ... the provider of that server noticed it was serving
a lot of traffic {ummm ... we just did 2 point releases ... no kidding
:) }, so they decided to reboot it for me :(

That did shutdown the tracker, but it is back on-line now.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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