pwtorrents.net torrents not recognised as private

[ADz-83]

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Firefox v104.0.2
ruTorrent v4.0-beta
Debian 11

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Quickbox Pro
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Describe the bug

pwtorrents.net seedbox option/tracker announce isn't showing as private so gets limited by ratio rules etc.

Full tracker announce is
http://pwtorrents.net/seedbox.php

There is no passkey as it uses pre-defined IP address in profile.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set ratio rules/extratio/throttle plugins to limit public tracker
2. Add torrent from pwtorrents.net using Seedbox IP option (IP added to profile, use seedbox button on site to grab .torrent)

Expected behavior

Recognised as Private not Public

Additional context

No response

[stickz]

This is related to the plimits plugin. Without the plugin, ruTorrent doesn't know if the tracker is public or private. As a result, you have no way of limiting public trackers in the first place.

Since you are running ruTorrent v4.0 with this plugin, you will need to update the trackers.lst file. http://pwtorrents.net/ (or anther domain resolving to the same IP address) is most likely listed as public in this file. More information is available here on the third-party GitHub repository for this plugin. https://github.com/Micdu70/rutorrent-plimits

[ADz-83]

This is related to the plimits plugin. Without the plugin, ruTorrent doesn't know if the tracker is public or private. As a result, you have no way of limiting public trackers in the first place.

Since you are running ruTorrent v4.0 with this plugin, you will need to update the trackers.lst file. http://pwtorrents.net/ (or anther domain resolving to the same IP address) is most likely listed as public in this file. More information is available here on the third-party GitHub repository for this plugin. https://github.com/Micdu70/rutorrent-plimits

You're mistaken/Didn't read report correctly.

This has absolutely zero to do with that plugin because I'm not using it and yes ruorrent does know if a torrent is public or private and yes you do have ways of limiting public trackers via the extratio and throttle plugin as I have already mentioned.

You can set ratio rules via the extratio plugin to limit torrents based on rules like "If tracker is public then" and throttle them via the throttle plugin

Regardless of me limiting torrents or not, These aside the tracker I mentioned is still incorrectly being recognised as non-private in rutorrent and in past after issue reports exceptions to rutorrent have been added to accommodate the tracker.

https://i.imgur.com/JxB4RZM.png

[Novik]

Full tracker announce is
http://pwtorrents.net/seedbox.php
There is no passkey as it uses pre-defined IP address in profile.

This is a normal behavior and can't be fixed.

@stickz see https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent/blob/master/plugins/extratio/rules.php#L33

[stickz]

@Novik Yeah I saw the regex patterns, to determinate if a tracker is private. pwtorrents.net doesn't match any of these patterns. They whitelist by IP Address instead of using passkeys.

The next best option is to add a new item to theContextMenu for trackers. This would allow the user to change the tracker type themselves to public or private. It makes sense to cache the preg_match results for trackers using the rCache class anyways. They become problematic when run on thousands of trackers at once. It's only a couple more steps to override these values.

[Antorell]

I had a similar issue the other day where rutorrent randomly flagged a public tracker as private and ignored my extRatio rule for public trackers. Can't rutorrent get the torrent's file private flag to find out if a torrent is public or private instead of using regexes?

I use ExtRatio, not plimit.

[ILLYAG]

Full tracker announce is
http://pwtorrents.net/seedbox.php
There is no passkey as it uses pre-defined IP address in profile.

This is a normal behavior and can't be fixed.

@stickz see https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent/blob/master/plugins/extratio/rules.php#L33

In past you have added exceptions so that some trackers are set to private in rutorrent. Could you not do that here for this tracker?

[ILLYAG]

@Novik Yeah I saw the regex patterns, to determinate if a tracker is private. pwtorrents.net doesn't match any of these patterns. They whitelist by IP Address instead of using passkeys.

The next best option is to add a new item to theContextMenu for trackers. This would allow the user to change the tracker type themselves to public or private. It makes sense to cache the preg_match results for trackers using the rCache class anyways. They become problematic when run on thousands of trackers at once. It's only a couple more steps to override these values.

It's only their seedbox option/torrent button that uses IP. Their regular button uses passkey.

[stickz]

I had a similar issue the other day where rutorrent randomly flagged a public tracker as private

Please create a separate bug report. I require more specific details. Follow all the steps and include a screenshot.

Can't rutorrent get the torrent's file private flag to find out if a torrent is public or private instead of using regexes?

No, that is not a good solution. The torrent's private flag has nothing to do with it having public or private trackers.

In past you have added exceptions so that some trackers are set to private in rutorrent. Could you not do that here for this tracker?

I just mentioned allowing the user to right click on the tracker and set it to private themselves. This is much more convenient. If you want to create an issue report, ask us to do it and update your ruTorrent version instead please let me know.

It's only their seedbox option/torrent button that uses IP. Their regular button uses passkey.

This doesn't matter. Once the user sets the whole website to private, it will work properly for both these options.

[Antorell]

I'm not going to create another issue when the issue is obviously because of the same regex.

Can't rutorrent get the torrent's file private flag to find out if a torrent is public or private instead of using regexes?

No, that is not a good solution. The torrent's private flag has nothing to do with it having public or private trackers.

lol? The private flag disable DHT PEX and the like, ever seen a private tracker with DHT/PEX? If you mean because you can add public trackers to your private tracker, and ext ratio wouldn't find that. What's the point of being in a public tracker if it's to add public trackers to every torrent you download from that private tracker? That's a solution for an niche use.

[stickz]

@ADz-83 I'm working on a solution to your problem. I locked this conversation temporarily, as the issue report is going downhill.