The Azureus Internal Tracker can be very usefull if you just want to send files to a few people in a fairly secure and relaible manner, for instance sending 10Mb though it is likely to be a lot simpler than using msn for the same thing and with everything intergrated when you have things set up it only takes a minuite say to get a torrent ready.

There are a few things you need to know/do before you can successfully set up the Azureus internal tracker.

Firstly, you need to know what your external ip address is, you can find that out here

This will enable you to set the tracker up on a one time basis if you have a dynamic ip, that is, one that changes everytime you reboot your modem. The way round this is to sign up for a free dns account

I would suggest signing for a free no-ip account

You can also do this by clicking on the Auto Discover External ip Adress .... Button which will give you the option of several free DNS services you could sign up for. Found in Tools>Options>Tracker>Sever



Once you have signed up for your account you should log into your no-ip and add a host/redirect if you didn't do this as part of the sign up process, you just need the default DNS (A) this will give you a domain that people can connect to of the form where your_account is a suitable name to call your pc or server.

Once you have done this you should then download their free dns updater client here which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. You can set this to run on start up. It tells the no-ip dns servers what your ip is so that people are just redirected to you without them having to know your ip.

Now to configure Azureus to enable the intenal tracker.

Tools>options>Tracker>server

Most things can be left at the default and you need only alter a few settings

In "Tracker external IP Address you either add your ip or your free dns account ie your_account.no-ip.info

Select Enable Tracker on HTTP port this selects port 6969 as the tracker port you will need to foward this port....I just do this when running the internal tracker and you can choose another port number. If you don't know how to do this ADL's excellent guide should help you

Please note you must foward your ports through any software Firewall as well as your Router/ Routers NAPT ( many ethernet modems also have a router built in so you may have two layers of NAPT to deal with)

Some addition advice for other software Firewalls can be found here

The only other thing to change is select Enable UDP Tracker protocol



Now just hit the save button to finish configuring the tracker

Your tracker is now ready for use and you'll see a minor difference when you go to create a torrent

File>Create new torrent




You should now see that Use Embedded Azureus Tracker is the Default and your Tracker URL will be inserted automatically. To make life easier when you make your torrent file I would suggest you select the following options

Open The Torrent For Seeding When Done

and

Host The Torrent On The Inbuilt Tracker



It is possible to alter the appearance and some of the settings of the Tracker web page including having the web page on a different port to the tracker, these settings can be found under Tools>Options>Plug Ins>Tracker Web.

Note The Tracker web page is part of the core plug ins, you must have this installed to get the Tracker Web plug in configeration page mention below

Core Plugins

The easiest way to instal them is to use the Plug Ins instalation Wiward: Azureus>Plug Ins>Instalation Wizard, you can even select "by list from sourceforge.net

Note You must ensure Publish torrent details to "<tracker _url" is selected.......or your Tracker page will not be visible





Now all you need to do is give your friends the web address of your Tracker page so they can download the torrent file, that takes the form of your ip or no-ip account plus the port number.



then peers should see something like this and if they click on the torrents they should be able to download them.




If you want to view your own Tracker page you should be able to do this using


If for some reason you or anyone you send the link to can not see the tracker page you can always send then the torrent file and check that your tracker is running using the Torrentspy aplication.



Hopefully everything in this guide should give you a working Tracker with a visible web page, thanks to ADL_242 for providing clues to the things I had missed as they where installed by default on my system and my appologies to any one who has initaily had problems.

Thanks for that ABBANDON, this'll be really useful :a013:

Thanks AB :a013:

Thanks! I just decided TODAY that I need to know how to do this!

It's a usefull tool to transfer things to friends, the screen shots are for an earlier version and windows but the settings should be the same

It won't lgive me the finsh button when I pick no-ip!!! Please help!!

As in finish when you create a torrent ?

when I pick the No-ip on the IP Checker Wizard!! I beleive pic #1

Have you created your No-ip account ?




You need to add the url of the no-ip account that you created there.

I'll try that hold on

even after I entered the url it still want let me do it and it won't let me publish anything

I've done everything at least twice word for word

Could you do a screenshot? obscure the identifying part of the URL though

don't know howDo you have a IM like yahoo mess this would be so quicker if we could talk like thatPS: I had it working last night and could host and publish but this morning my internet went out and after that NOTHING!!

hold down the alt key with Azureus as the active window and press the PrtSc key normally found by the function keys on the top row of the keyboard, you can then open paint that comes with windows and use Edit Paste to put it into the program, save it as a jpeg and pm it to me if it's under 300Kb

Here you go:

PS it says it's larger than 500k

I think you need to manually enter the data into the box after you get your host name set-up... that's what I had to do when I had the same problem... and I'm running mac too if you was wondering.


I know this is over a year old too, but hey! it's good to know.