transmission-daemon making /scrape, /announce requests

[lkraav]

hi all

i have a web server running on port 80 of the same machine transmission-daemon is running on. when transmission-daemon is downloading something, it makes periodic queries to http://localhost/scrape?... and http://localhost/announce?... obviously it's just getting 404 errors back from those urls. i'm struggling to understand why, what mechanism triggers these requests? i am not aware that local httpd needed to be configured in any way for transmission-daemon's normal operation.

[gunzip]

there is a famous public torrent site with http trackers that no longer work, and resolve to 127.0.0.1 (localhost). most public sites nowadays are relying on DHT and udp trackers for connections.

anyway, just ping the tracker domain if you want to check. i usually remove those type of dead trackers just to reduce the overhead.

[Jordan]

+1 on gunzip's answer. This correct and a not-uncommon question.

[lkraav]

thanks gunzip and jordan for confirming. but i'm not sure how to "ping the tracker domain" and "remove dead trackers". are you talking about pre-processing .torrent files before adding to transmission-daemon?

[Jordan]

Depending on what interface you're using, you can probably remove them manually after adding the torrent. That's what I do.

Most of transmission-daemon's "remote controls" will let you add/remove/edit the tracker lists.