Torrents not working?

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:25:33 +0100
SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:11:05 -0500
> > cameron conner <cameron.lists at desk003.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> torrents seem to be working fine-I'm uploading to the ubuntu one now. 
> >> odd thing is there is only 159 seeders and 18 leechers. seems pretty 
> >> low to me, not sure what's going on there.
> > 
> > The tracker seems to be having a few problems recognising everyone ;)
> > 
> > I noticed the figures varied from the hundreds to the thousands
> > - currently the desktop CD swarm is showing more than 2800 seeds and over
> > 500 peers here in Azureus, but at other times I was seeing figures more
> > like yours.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> I did get both ISOs downloaded, it took about ½ hour to start but 
> downloaed in next to no time once they did.  But as you say the numbers 
> of seeds and peers seemd to vary wildly.  Is it pssible to overload a 
> torrent with too many seeds?

I don't really know enough about torrents to be sure, but it looks to me
as if the torrent tracker at

http://torrent.ubuntu.com:6969/

has been having a few little tantrums since the feisty release ;)

I don't think the number of seeds is a problem " per se " - but the
tracker has been down several times. If your client uses a DHT
( distributed hash table ) it will continue to "work" even when the
tracker is down, though, by picking up other peers from the distributed
data base .

Peter