Not sure that is one of their official domains? https://solidtorrents.eu and https://solidtorrents.to seem to be up at the moment - but you’re right their uptime has been spotty.
As an alternative you could always check if https://bitsearch.to is up, that site is run by the same admin and shares the same torrent database AFAIK.
I don’t know if the site admin is around on Lemmy, they are (or used to be) on Reddit.
Looks like the block list itself is maintained here
they want to setup a server to host a simple “contact” website
Not sure what sort of uptime/reliability your friends are expecting out of a self hosted solution but for something like that you wouldn’t need much processing power, even a Raspberry Pi can host a simple website. Not sure what to recommend offhand but there are definitely vendors in that space that sell simple DIY “contact us” form software, or I guess if you wanted to roll your own that’s an option too. I’d be more concerned about keeping it locked down/secure.
Keep in mind for the internet your friends would likely need business class internet with multiple static IPs so you can give your little DIY box its own public IP address. Many (most?) residential internet service providers do not allow self hosting websites on their network and they’d be dynamic IP anyway though you could work around that somewhat with dynamic DNS since you’re going to need to purchase a domain name and point it to somewhere anyway.
run an e-mail service (about 10 accounts for now but with possibilities of expanding it to support more)
Like others said you really don’t want to go that route unless you’re well versed in that area. It would be annoying for a business especially a new one, those emails will likely keep going into other provider’s spam folders for a good period of time. All the big mainstream email providers are notorious for not trusting new email domains / new IP addresses.
Seems easier to just go to Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 / whatever other provider you like to use, presumably the business has a business use case for reliable email among other things.
Bonus: Those cloud services can easily host simple contact forms for you so maybe that’s your all in one solution. Look into Google Forms and similar.
and to store and remote access documents.
That sounds like the above commercial cloud solutions again :)
But sure technically you could go through the extra step hosting that yourself. Depends on how the business wants to use/access this stuff, it’s really a question for them. Could be as simple as a Windows server with RDP (if they’re Windows people & just want to log into something “windows” to browse/open files) or maybe multi-user Linux with VNC (the geeks might like, maybe not so much the general Windows/Mac users). Or if you’re trying to do something web oriented maybe something like Nextcloud if you want to do all this in a web browser.
You should triple check what exactly they are expecting when it comes to remote access documents… you really don’t want to spend the time setting up something that they totally weren’t expecting and end up hating.
P.S I’ve enever used XD. So I can’t help you out there, but it seems like a very bare-bones torrent client. qbittorrent recently added support for it but if you’re running a headless server, XD doesn’t seem like a bad option. Github says it has no DHT support? Not sure if that’s the best option, but good luck with it.
Correct. To be fair both XD and qBittorrent don’t support DHT over I2P so they’re kind of on the same level there. I think (?) neither support PEX over I2P either though I’m not 100% sure on XD about that.
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19913
Currently not possible. Bitmagnet would need to have new code to be able to properly talk to the mainline java I2P service to enable DHT over I2P bittorrent. Or the Bitmagnet devs could develop their own I2P service to talk to the I2P network but that might be even more dev work.
https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet/issues/303
Per https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent
DHT support requires SAM v3.3 PRIMARY and SUBSESSIONS for TCP and UDP over the same session. This will require substantial development effort on the client side, unless the client is written in Java. i2pd does not currently support SAM v3.3. libtorrent does not currently support SAM v3.3.
And it’s like 3-4 hundred ish.
That should be easy for just about any torrent client (including Transmission), could be worth opening an issue at their GitHub page https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues
Hopefully switching torrent clients resolves that for you.
I’m migrating because Transmission is horrible for a large amount of torrents (multiple of hundreds)
That doesn’t sound like too many, you’re saying you’re at under 1000 torrents? How many multiples of hundreds are we talking?
Surprised Transmission has issues seeding that many, thought Transmission 4.x made improvements in that area. How much RAM does your system have? Maybe at some point you just need more system resources to handle the load.
PS - For what it’s worth you can still stick with Transmission and/or other torrent clients & just spread the torrents among multiple torrent client instances. e.g. run multiple Transmission instances with each seeding 1000 or whatever amount of torrents works for you.
It’s a nice gesture but I’m a bit doubtful that there’s enough people here to sustain a private tracker. Taking a guess at this but it seems most people here in c/piracy are general users, not specifically private tracker users - in fact a fair amount don’t even like the idea of private trackers.
!trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists but it’s pretty quiet by comparison.
Not saying it’s a bad idea but it could be a while before a niche tracker like that would gain enough traction to sustain itself. And I’m just talking about a regular private tracker, not even going to touch on the idea of someone developing a “decentralized private tracker” whatever that means… TBH if you want decentralized just stick to public torrents with DHT/PEX, that’s already decentralized. Or maybe make a semi-private tracker like Demonoid if that’s more along the lines of what you want.
Not overly active but you could sub/participate in
!opensignups@lemmy.ml
!opensignups@noworriesto.day
Also !torrent_trackers@lemmy.ml (it’s more of a tracker listing community)
And right here in dbzer0 there’s !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com for general discussion as well.
EDIT: For specific sites / non-Lemmy you can monitor https://opentrackers.org, I kind of wonder if the admin ever made it over to Lemmy. On Reddit he goes by cuddlebunny and an earlier nick IIRC (but that’s all ancient info now probably).
This way, private torrents could “escape” into the wild, still maintaining the privacy and social/closed community effects of the private tracker.
Except that it wouldn’t. The infohash that the private flagged torrent generated is different vs a public non-private torrent of the same contents. Your suggestion would purposely share the same exact private torrent infohash into public DHT/PEX, that would certainly get people banned at the source private tracker(s). I also suspect most/all torrent client developers would consider that incorrect behavior.
If you wanted to do a more “correct” approach on this - Create a brand new public non-private flagged torrent of those contents, which would generate its own unique infohash, then it’s just a regular torrent. You’d end up needing to seed multiple copies of the same torrent (the original private flagged torrent and your new public torrent) but sure that would be possible as long as the torrent client itself has DHT/PEX enabled. Most private trackers won’t care too much but some of that does depend on individual trackers and uploaders, you’d need to check their rules.
If it’s a movie blu ray you can usually play the “index.bdmv” file in a compatible media player e.g. VLC definitely works. MPC-HC / MPC-BE works too, I think(?) MPV can play them too. As well as Jellyfin and Kodi if that’s your thing.
Alternatively browse into the “STREAM” folder, usually the biggest .m2ts file in there is the actual movie or whatever it is you want to play. The above media players can play that directly if preferred.
For TV series the above usually works too but the episodes are usually split out among multiple .m2ts files so it might be easier just to play them directly in that case.
Jellyfin should work fine for what you’re looking for. I haven’t run it on a Pi but it should work on that. You’ll be able to play music using the web ui as well as mobile apps if that’s your thing. It can also transcode on the fly so if your current browser/device/whatever can’t play .flac directly it’ll automatically transcode the playback to .mp3 or whatever it needs to be.
There are some other self hosted music/streaming projects you could take a look at that are much more built out for music playback specifically. Look into Airsonic-Advanced or Navidrome for example - I’ve been meaning to check them out myself but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Does p2p over i2p require port forwarding?
No, you’ll torrent fine via I2P without port forwarding. Note that the torrents are running through the I2P network so technically you wouldn’t want to open your torrent client to the clearnet anyway. It’d be like purposely introducing a VPN leak in your VPN setup by allowing it traffic outside the VPN (or in this case I2P).
Been a bit since I’ve tinkered with torrents over I2P but for a while I was seeding torrents over I2P and would get pretty good seed/upload speeds to other torrent peers. Was mainly testing with i2psnark and BiglyBT.
Fun fact: Torrent hashes don’t change, so that same exact torrent you might download at TPB or wherever would still download within I2P as long as there’s someone seeding it there.
Also see https://geti2p.net/en/faq#ports
Not exactly what you’re asking but you can open a port forward for I2P itself to better communicate with other I2P routers. “routers” in this case usually means other people running I2P.
I don’t think think I have considered rTorrent before. But this one doesn’t have a remote GUI client the way deluge and transmission allow their UI to connect to a remote daemon, right?
Correct. You’re referring to the thin client, offhand I think it’s just Transmission and Deluge that have that. You don’t need a thin client for a headless torrent client setup, plenty of people do fine with a web ui. But I get it, if you prefer using a thin client then yeah Deluge or Transmission are your options for that.
re: Deluge once you have logging enabled it’ll be easier to troubleshoot things. Always seemed a bit odd that Deluge doesn’t at least enable error/warning logging by default but that’s a Deluge thing.
The behavior isn’t normal - Without the error message itself it’s hard to say. You’re not seeing any tracker errors or anything like that within Deluge right?
Otherwise shut down Deluge, enable logging, then re-start it. See “Enable Deluge Logging” in https://deluge-torrent.org/troubleshooting
Maybe you want to set the log level to “error” or “warning”, if those don’t yield anything new then set it to “info” to log whatever error it is.
Also maybe update your post with your OS and Deluge / LibTorrent version.
For what it’s worth in the past I’ve sometimes seen Deluge error on a brand new private tracker torrent, sometimes the private tracker needs a few seconds or a minute to update the tracker and show seeds/etc. - in those random cases Deluge ends up talking to the private tracker before all that & that results in it displaying some error like torrent not found at tracker, I forget exactly what the error was. It’s a bit odd since I’ve never seen rTorrent/ruTorrent have that issue, seemed like a Deluge thing. Been a while since i’ve dealt with that and can’t remember how I fixed it, think it involved having a delay before Deluge attempted to load/start the torrent.
for headless you get either Deluge or Transmission
The paid Seedbox providers usually default to rTorrent/ruTorrent for headless torrenting on their Linux based systems. Deluge/Transmission are the alternative clients in those cases.
Nowadays qBittorrent with webui enabled behaves pretty well on a headless system otherwise qbittorrent-nox is also an option.
I’d like to post some movie and TV show dumps somewhere, particularly that’ll be indexed by Torrentio
Not a Stemio user but that requirement would limit your options right? https://torrentio.strem.fun/configure
Based on that your choices are to apply for uploader status at 1337x, ThePirateBay, TorrentGalaxy (if it ever comes back up), or maybe Rutracker if you can deal with the English/Russian translation. Just getting an account at those sites may not be possible but you’ll need to try that to achieve what you want. Not sure if they’ll give you uploader status if you’re just uploading the same movie/tv content they already have.
If you don’t care about Stemio you could try uploading to BitSearch / SolidTorrents, those are DHT crawlers (same database I believe). The admin does allow people to add torrent hashes to the main database there.
You’re just referring to scene releases for music right? It’s a bit confusing since you’re referring to bundles, scene releases can be on their own or in a bundle depending where you get them. Private torrent trackers with scene releases for music have that type of thing e.g. some scene trackers do a 0day bundle of music every 1-2 weeks, some scene trackers do individual torrents of those releases.
I don’t download much music so it’s not something I’m well versed in but know it exists. Seems sort of annoying downloading a whole bundle of random music releases when you only care about 1-2 of the releases in the bundle. Then again having individual torrents for each and every music release does tend to lead to lots of dead unseeded torrents later on.
Interestingly public torrent indexers tend to have other non-scene groups doing music releases. On the FLAC side of things I’ve seen EICHBAUM and PMEDIA show up a lot and I’m pretty sure those have nothing to do with scene.
When i disable the setting bittorrent -> torrent queuing i get over 20 active torrents that are seeding.
This doesn’t answer your main question but maybe just leave it as-is and don’t overthink it? I find that torrent clients work best with torrent queuing disabled & letting the torrent client handle everything. Your torrent client is going to do the best it can with the available bandwidth/connections it can use - Definitely feel free to configure those if you want to control that a bit (“Global Maximum Number of Connections” and “Global Rate Limits”).
Also remember it’s not just dependent on your own limits, each peer connecting to you has their own bandwidth/connection limits.
but metadata tagging
Not possible to keep seeding changed data. Changing the file contents changes the file hash / torrent hash. There is no way to keep seeding a torrent that expects different file data.
Not sure if it’s worth it but if you really wanted to keep seeding the original data then you’d need to keep a “torrent” copy of that data for qBittorrent and your own copy of the files elsewhere that you can tag and change as much as you like.
and renaming fucks the files up.
Similar solution to above, you could keep separate folders if you wanted.
But technically as long as you never change the file data (e.g. no metadata tagging) then you could keep two separate folders and have the data hardlinked between them. That way you can rename one version of them as much as you like while keeping the original filenames in the other folder.
e.g. simple example
c:\qbittorrent\torrentdata\musicstuff <-- all files/subfolders hardlinked --> c:\mymusic\blahblah
Alternatively you could do what the other commenter mentioned & rename the files within qBittorrent itself. Personally I prefer the hardlink method since that keeps the torrent client with the same expected file names it looks for, makes it easier to do things like re-install / re-seed the torrent client, switch torrent clients, etc.
The old SPiRiT releases (rartv torrents) seem to work, for the torrents check Ext / Limetorrents / Torrentdownloads / rarbg.pw (RARBG backup torrents) / Watchsomuch
That’s some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit’s default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.
The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod’s PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.
iOS is way too locked down. Granted, it depends on what you do and what you need, but since you’re asking in this community yeah… not the best choice.
Honestly just get a Android phone that’s just pure Android OS and nothing else, you don’t have to deal with the added junk that Samsung or whoever want to add on top of the OS. e.g. Google Pixel is quite excellent for this. And even still, if you end up wanting a different OS try installing GrapheneOS & see how it goes.
Should be fine, just don’t cheap out on the external drive / cable you will be using. And when you’re using something like smartctl you’ll know right away if SMART info is passing through your USB for proper testing.
I’ve done a lot of these type of scans via USB drives, honestly the more annoying part is that some USB drives do wonky things like go into sleep mode within 1-5 minutes which will disrupt any sort of scanning you had going. So with USB drive scanning I usually implement something to keep the drive alive and awake e.g. a simple infinite loop script to write a file every x seconds, or if you’re on windows you can also use KeepAliveHD.
however I can still seed the torrent how is that possible?
Yes you can still seed as well as download. But you are limited and can only upload and download torrent data in swarms that contain peers that are themselves fully connectable (port forwarded).
So say you join a torrent swarm that only contains peers just like you (firewalled, no ports forwarded) then no one will transfer any torrent data with each other. Everyone is stuck waiting for a fully connectable (port forwarded) peer to join that swarm.
FYI all the official domains and .onion link are on their proxygalaxy page
For what it’s worth .to does not forward me to .mx, each of those domains seem to work fine on their own. Not sure what exactly is happening with your browser, maybe try clearing the cache / doing a hard reload.
Hmm just tried it & it doesn’t load either. The last official onion link I found published on https://proxygalaxy.me (via archive.org) was in May 2024 at http://galaxy3yrfbwlwo72q3v2wlyjinqr2vejgpkxb22ll5pcpuaxlnqjiid.onion but it doesn’t seem to load for me in Tor Browser.
I tried creating my own torrent and was able to dl it on another device, but on her machine it stayed at 0% and wouldn’t let me connect to seed
At least one of the torrent clients needs to be fully connectable (port forwarded) for torrents to transfer data. You need to test that e.g. test your torrent client’s incoming connection port with a port test website like https://www.canyouseeme.org, https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports, etc. & make sure those port test websites can successfully test connect to your torrent client’s incoming connection port. If the test fails then you need to look at opening the port via your OS firewall and/or router firewall.
Is FTP a good option? I set up a proxmox server last night but I don’t really know what I’m doing yet
Probably best to avoid FTP if you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s not all that secure… you’d want to at least configure SFTP or FTPS which is just going to be more complicated vs fixing your torrent issues. And technically you still need to make those connectable (port forwarded) too, just like your torrent client.
All that aside it’s probably easier to use Syncthing if you can’t get the torrent working.
You could also try one of those file transfer websites that use WebRTC to transfer data peer to peer e.g. https://file.pizza or similar. Not sure how well they work for huge amounts of data but their github page mentions that Firefox is better for that, apparently Chrome starts to choke with data 500+ MB.
You might be confusing public IP addresses with ports? If your torrent client doesn’t have a public IP address that just means it’s offline / no internet. Maybe your internet is down or the VPN is disconnected. You’re won’t torrent anything at all in that state.
One side of the connection needs a
public addressopen port, not both. When both parties don’t have apublicly addressable IPopen port,the status is firewalled. I guessthey can “see” each other but are unable to exchange any torrent data.
For what it’s worth in the situation where both peers don’t have open ports (meaning they are both firewalled) they end up having to wait for another peer to join that torrent swarm that happens to have a open port, that’s the only way any data will exchange in that swarm. Until that happens those two peers will sit there waiting and not exchanging data.
So your saying it should have never worked even if I was not using docker?
Correct.
Also it’s now working… I have no idea
Yeah that’s weird, I don’t know if you accidentally found a way to hack Windscribe into temporarily giving you a port forward on their free plan. But otherwise you do need to be a paid member on their Pro account for that feature.
Or it’s just going to randomly stop working again.
Is there a way to actually test your port forward within Docker? I’m not familiar enough with that configuration to suggest anything but maybe someone else knows about that. Usually without Docker I’d just start up the torrent client & then use a web browser with any port test website (https://www.canyouseeme.org, https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports, etc.). But for Docker not too sure how to go about that.
I have never done any kind of manual port forwarding my current VPN provider does not do that at the price I have it for right now.
If the VPN provider does not support port forwarding then it is normal and expected to always be firewalled. Toggling random ports doesn’t change that fact.
Not sure why you would sometimes see your status as fully connectable, guessing either it’s a Windscribe misconfiguration when you initially connect (?) or qBittorrent gets confused during the intitial connect. Or there’s some other misconfiguration.
You might want to see if other people using that VPN provider have more insight, maybe they are doing something strange with the ports when you initially connect & eventually close them on you.
True, wouldn’t be too different vs just using a VPN. You’re choosing to trust the Tribler tech and the Tribler exit node operator vs choosing to trust the VPN provider. Granted most VPN connections are going to have much better performance vs anything Tribler related.
There is a nice side effect of running an *arr stack against Tribler, even in 1 hop mode - Your Tribler node is much more easily pulling in new content into the Tribler network for other users to access afterwards without needing an exit node. Ideally it’s just one Tribler node/user needing to pull data through the exit nodes while the rest would just pull it from you and share with other nodes in-network.
Torrents over I2P work the same way. If the torrent data isn’t found within I2P and you have outproxies configured you could pull torrents from the clearnet & afterwards other I2P users just share amongst the I2P network.
That’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing! Been a while since I tried it out but last I looked Tribler’s own automation features were quite lacking so something like this helps a lot.
I was not able to download anything with more than 1 hops in between - ie it does hide your real IP address, but only uses one relay in between.
Hmm I don’t think there’s any relays at all in that configuration, unless you’re counting the exit node itself?
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3067#issuecomment-325367047
One thing to keep in mind is that to download torrents from outside Tribler’s own network you would need to download through an exit node… not sure on the exact stats but last I tested exit nodes were only like 5-10% of the Tribler user base. For a while I tried volunteering my own VPN connection as an exit node for Tribler just to see how it went but the Tribler client kept locking up/crashing after a few days so the experiment did not go well… hopefully works better nowadays.
But, regardless, blocking any registrars that size the way you’re describing would break way more businesses and hurt the recipient provider’s own reputation.
Yeah I thought that too but when speaking with the email admin that was blocking Namecheap while figuring this out they had already decided it wasn’t worth trying to allow the 1% of valid emails vs the 99% spam emails they felt they received via Namecheap domains.
This honestly starting to sound more and more like a smear campaign
Smear against whom? I’m a Namecheap customer, just relaying my own experiences using them. Besides that quirk I like them fine as a registrar… I know it sounds dumb but I even renewed my domains there even after those email issues.
It’s fine, you don’t need to believe me as I said it’s just my own experience using Namecheap domains for emails. But you could just google around, you’ll see plenty of people discussing Namecheap & looking for solutions to block them (or solutions to successfully send emails with hem)… it’s not something I randomly made up if that’s what you’re implying.
e.g.
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/blocking-emails-based-on-registrar/816565
https://tacit.livejournal.com/608386.html
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/why-do-scammers-love-namecheap/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/13t6fvm/namecheaps_private_email_is_blacklisted_by/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/wlb6vp/namecheap_making_it_too_easy_to_register_domains/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/tz4mkb/my_emails_are_always_going_in_the_spam_folder_of/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/ye358x/i_am_getting_a_ton_of_spam_scams_from_namecheap/
etc.
If you’re using Google Workspace, Google will give you the appropriate DMARC, DKIM and SPF records to add to your DNS. The NS themselves should resolve the records and provide the recipient server with the values you’ve entered, thereby ensuring delivery.
Sure. But why would that matter when you’re dealing with hostile 3rd party email providers that intentionally want to blackhole all email domains at Namecheap? But yes, just to clarify I do configure DMARC/DKIM/SPF and that works great for most cases.
I’m just describing what worked for me though in truth I don’t know exactly how these hostile email providers actually determine the domain is hosted at Namecheap. My hunch is that they are using a lookup & finding the nameserver for the domain & have already blacklisted Namecheap’s default free nameserver IP addresses. For whatever reason those same hostile email providers don’t seem to be blacklisting Namecheap’s paid nameserver but I think that sort of makes sense…
The larger issue is that Namecheap is known for cheap domains that scammers/spammers tend to buy in bulk & then use to spam with. Those same scammers/spammers aren’t trying to spend extra money so they only ever use the default free Namecheap nameservers.
If you use Namecheap for email domain(s) you may want to consider also splurging for their PremiumDNS to keep your domain(s) off spam blocks at other email providers.
I help maintain some emails at Gmail/Google Workspace but the domains themselves are at Namecheap. For a while there were complaints that some emails never landed in other people’s inboxes… this led me to talk about the issue with one of the email provider recipients based in the UK & apparently they were null routing anything coming from Namecheap since they felt a lot of spam came from them. But after some experimenting I figured out their system (& probably others) were figuring out they were Namecheap domains via the default FreeDNS they use. On a hunch I switched those domains over to PremiumDNS and after that all our emails were landing in other inboxes correctly. I guess maybe it makes sense, a typical spammer buying a cheap domain at Namecheap isn’t going to splurge for the higher end DNS service for it.
I’m not saying all email providers treat Namecheap domains as spam but just be warned there definitely ones out there that do.
Is that one definitely scraping bittorrent DHT? From what I can tell it looks like it used for scraping IPFS DHT via HTTP. Been a bit since I tinkered with IPFS but I do know services exist to scrape the IPFS DHT, this might be one of the backend tools being used for that.