Thread: uTorrent: Make Your Own BitTorrent Tracker

If you’ve got a large amount of data to transfer from one place toanother, we all know BitTorrent is an extremely efficient way of doing it.
But sometimes you may want to transfer data which you don’t want to (or can’t) upload to a tracker on the Internet.
This is where uTorrent comes in handy, because it can act as your own private tracker.



You’ll need a few things before you begin:
1. A recent copy of uTorrent, there’s no excuse not to use it.
2.Your external IP address.You can use http://www.whatismyip.com/ to find this.
3. Your listen port in uTorrent. You can find this in uTorrent’s Options > Preferences > Connection > Port used for incoming connections.
4. You must be connectable! This won’t work if you don’t have port forwarding correctly configured.

Here’s what you need to do:
Open up uTorrent and go Options > Preferences > Advanced. Scroll down to find bt.enable_tracker and set it to True. Restart uTorrent for this to take effect.

Now, create a new torrent.As usual, browse to find the file or folder you wish to share.

For the tracker url, use the following information:
http://your_ip_address:your_listen_port/announce

So, for example, if your IP address is 123.123.123.123 and your listenport is 54321 then you would put this as your tracker url:
http://123.123.123.123:54321/announce

Remember to tick ‘Start Seeding’.Tick ‘Private Torrent’ to disable DHT and Peer Exchange for this torrent if you want to.

Now press ‘Create and save as..’ and save the .torrent file somewhere. uTorrent should now connect (to itself) and the tracker status should be ‘working’. You’ll note it has a 10 minute announce interval.

That’s all there is to it. You can now send that .torrent file to someone, they can open it in their torrent client and start downloading the content.

Want something more fancy than an IP address? Get yourself a domain name from somewhere like DynDNS.com Dynamic DNS: Free DDNS Service or from http://www.afraid.org.

Troubleshooting: If the connect times out and can’t find the tracker,you’ve done something wrong. Ensure you’ve got the correct IP address,port, and that uTorrent is definitely connectable from the outside.You can run uTorrent’s test for that by going to Options > SpeedGuide and clicking Test if port is forwarded properly. Also, ensure you have a colon separating the IP address and port number!

Source: uTorrent: Make Your Own BitTorrent Tracker | THE source for BitTorrent & P2P Tips, Tricks and Info. | FileShareFreak

thx pro for explain

looks great thanks for the information!

I've always wondered how to do this as I'm usually jumping back and forth between two computers in different locations.. but was too lazy to search on it...thanks for this it seems really easy.

Interesting.

Simpler than setting up an FTPd I suppose.

Thanks.

i didn't know that
thx

Wow!!!
It is very nice idea!!

I smell many many new announce channel is coming up in torrent indexer site(s).

Sweet explanation! This will be a useful tool in the future!

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