Thread: Cross-seeding with rtorrent

Hey,

I'm having a bit of a problem. I have files on my seedbox which I want to seed to two seperate trackers. I've made it work a couple of times. What I do is create the torrent with mktorrent on the seedbox, start seeding, then upload it to tracker A. I then use torrenteditor.com to change the tracker in the torrent file, then upload to tracker B, then download that torrent to the seedbox (making sure the .torrent file has a different name to the one I used for tracker A). I've got this to work a few times, and it works great. But, it seems like it only works when it feels like it. It's probably only worked 5% of the time I've tried it. It annoys me because I know it can be done, as I've done it, but it doesn't work consistently.

Am I doing something wrong?
Thank

Try creating both torrents with MKtorrent and see if you get the same result?

I've never had much luck using torrent editors, seems to be hit and miss quite often

Originally Posted by staffrodore

Try creating both torrents with MKtorrent and see if you get the same result?

I've never had much luck using torrent editors, seems to be hit and miss quite often

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried that, but I get the same result. Only one of the torrents will be present on rtorrent (the one I made and started seeding first). After the other torrent is created, even after ticking the "Start Seeding" option, it just doesn't start seeding, it doesn't even get added to the client. It's odd...

I believe you have to download the complete file from one tracker before you can add the .torrent file from another tracker and cross seed them. I just tried it, it worked fine on rtorrent. Another note, I wouldn't mess with the .torrent file, i.e. announce link unless I am 100% sure about what I am doing.

More good information about cross seeding.
http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...ed-safely.html

For rtorrent user, this post in particularly useful.
http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...tml#post452592

Im not sure if im following right but, did you create separate torrents for the different trackers and editing torrent files is really risky try to create torrent "A" with tracker "A" url announce and make a new torrent for tracker "B" and so on

Originally Posted by rainbowman

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried that, but I get the same result. Only one of the torrents will be present on rtorrent (the one I made and started seeding first). After the other torrent is created, even after ticking the "Start Seeding" option, it just doesn't start seeding, it doesn't even get added to the client. It's odd...

Are you using rutorrent 3.1 gui?

I think this is a known issue with rutorrent, have seen it elsewhere. Even if someone else downloads your torrent, if you have the same rtorrent config as his, his torrent will start paused.

I'm surprised MKtorrent gives the same result.
Maybe if you copy the folder into a random subdirectory, make a torrent from the new location, upload the torrent, redownload from tracker and load.
then you delete the copy folder you made in the subdirectory
you might have to set the subdirectory as your new default inbetween, then switch back.

Cheers for the replies guys, greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by matty

I believe you have to download the complete file from one tracker before you can add the .torrent file from another tracker and cross seed them. I just tried it, it worked fine on rtorrent. Another note, I wouldn't mess with the .torrent file, i.e. announce link unless I am 100% sure about what I am doing.

More good information about cross seeding.
http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...ed-safely.html

For rtorrent user, this post in particularly useful.
http://www.torrent-invites.com/tutor...tml#post452592

Yah, I'd never add more than one announce URL to an individual torrent, ratio cheating and all that.

See, my problem is that I FTP my own stuff onto my seedbox, then from there I want to seed it to more than one tracker (preferably three, but I guess if I can figure out how to always get it to work for two, three won't be much different). So my options are to either create the .torrent files on my home PC or on my seedbox. Either way, whatever I'm doing, it'll only let me load one .torrent file at a time. The weird thing is I have it working on several other torrents, and I'm not sure what it's working for those and not others.

Cheers for the links, they made things a bit clearer, but still didn't change anything.

Originally Posted by TORRENTBEAST

Im not sure if im following right but, did you create separate torrents for the different trackers and editing torrent files is really risky try to create torrent "A" with tracker "A" url announce and make a new torrent for tracker "B" and so on

Yah, that's what I've been doing. I've created two individual .torrents, each one with one announce URL. It'll only let me load on .torrent, though.

Originally Posted by Sigma9

Are you using rutorrent 3.1 gui?

Yeah, that's the one. I have rtGui and wtorrent too, but neither make a difference, rtorrent just won't accept the second .torrent most of the time.

I think this is a known issue with rutorrent, have seen it elsewhere. Even if someone else downloads your torrent, if you have the same rtorrent config as his, his torrent will start paused.

I've had that happen several times actually, it's a real pain. Well, for me it'll say "pausing" and won't budge from that. Not sure if it's the same issue.

I'm surprised MKtorrent gives the same result.
Maybe if you copy the folder into a random subdirectory, make a torrent from the new location, upload the torrent, redownload from tracker and load.
then you delete the copy folder you made in the subdirectory
you might have to set the subdirectory as your new default inbetween, then switch back.

Yah, I thought about doing that, but unfortunately, I only have ftp access to the server. It's a semi-dedicated box. And, with just ftp, you can't copy and paste files on the server. So that's that solution gone!