Transmission does not support multuple trackers?

[harry711]

Okay, hi. So if I have a torrent with trackers of:
http://tracker-website-number-1.com/announce (not real of course)
http://tracker-2.com/announce
http://tracker-3.com/announce

it only seems to scrape the first tracker for peers. So if the first tracker has 2 seeders, and the second tracker has 9001 seeders, I will only get connected to 2 seeders. Is this a bug, or just a "feature"? In other clients such as uTorrent, it will scrape all trackers for peers, and connect to them all. Transmission only likes to connect to the first one for me.

If I remove the first one, save it, stop the torrent, rerun it, I get the 9001 seeders. So...........fix this bug, or explain why it does this please?

Thank you!



Edit: I did see this thread: http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... f=1&t=5680
It would meet the torrent specifications or whatever you were saying, if it scraped all the trackers, then just downloaded from whatever one has the most seeds? Or have a boolean we can set to 'bypass' this 'rule'? ALL other torrent clients I have seen do not obey the single tracker rule.
Maybe you guys might be getting confused of "PEX"; that must be disabled on private flagged torrents. On Private torrents though, you can still scrape their seeds and download off them; as long as you do not peer-exchange.

[andrewfree]

I can support this observation

[Jordan]

There is already a ticket open for this feature; it's scheduled for 1.80.

http://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/1699

[harry711]

Okay, nice, thanks.

Do you have any idea when 1.80 will be released? I deal with multitrackers a lot, sucks to have to use uTorrent on Wine, while Transmission can get such a faster speed natively.

[Jordan]

No clue.

If I had a nickel for every time someone said "gosh it's a shame I have to use this other torrent client since you don't have ${my_pet_feature} *wink* *wink*" I would be rich.

Submitting a patch is the fastest way to see this feature implemented in Transmission.

[harry711]

Heh, if only I knew how to code that in