Sometimes, when I try to torrent using qBittorrent or Transmission, the search for metadata appears to take forever. What could be causing this issue?

@axzxc1236@lemm.ee
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  1. Dead torrent
  2. Your Internet blocks torrent/DHT traffic.

Not exactly the place to ask, but I can’t seem to get to the piracy page to make a post

Todd Bonzalez
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A magnet link is basically a torrent of a torrent, so the answer to your question is going to be the same as “why won’t this torrent download quickly / at all?”.

It could be:

  • No seeders
  • Firewall rules blocking DHT
  • No port forwarding
@Kanzar@sh.itjust.works
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Sometimes I paste a list of open common trackers into the details and it’ll fnd some peers that way. This is for public torrents only, ofc.

hendrik
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Go to the connection settings and copy the “Port used for incoming connections”. Paste it into a service like: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

If your port isn’t “open”, that’s your issue. You need to configure port-forwarding in your router or VPN client.

amio
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If magnets, then there’s less info in the link itself (compared to a .torrent) and that needs to be located. If availability is shit, that will be hard/impossible.

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