There seems to be a 'flaw' (or at least an inconvenience) in uTorrent - If a torrent has multiple trackers it will only use the first one listed unless the trackers are in different groups

As there are is large uT userbase this obviously has fairly far-reaching consequences and can limit both seeding and leeching for those users

The good news is that MakeTorrent2 seems to always put each tracker in a separate group automatically

The way to do it in other applications varies - Here's how to do it in uTorrent and Azureus -

uTorrent
The uT forums say to simply leave a blank line between each announce URL - Without the blank line uT will treat all the trackers as belonging to the same group - The blank line signifies the end of one group and the start of the next one

Azureus
After selecting the 'Add multi-tracker information to torrent' box in the first dialog box click Next and then on the following page click 'New' - Right-click the 'Tracker Group' line in the box that comes up and select New Group - You can then add an announce URL to that group - Repeat for each announce URL you wish to use - This way all the trackers will end up in separate groups and uTorrent users should be able to pick them all up

This is important because without doing this uT users will be restricted to a single tracker - And it's even more important if you're using uT to seed - If you don't use separate groups then on all but the first tracker your torrent will probably show as having no seeds

[Kitty]

Sadly krypt last updated Make torrent in 2004 and it is now generaly considered to not strictly follow the protocol.

A guide to using multi trackers with Azureus can be found here.


A guide to multi trackers with microtorrent can be found here.

thanks

i use uTorrent & i have been useing the "blank line" thing between the trackers.

everyone is talking about the new uTorrent & that its not safe yet though!

i would really hate to use another one now :-(((

Thanks for the info.....
I've been using the blank line.I'm pretty sure the other releasers know that as well.But good looking out



So sorry!!Thought this was a new post till i read the date..
I was like...WT?!