Tracker shows several seeders, but torrent shows zero seeders? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Edit: I had to enable port forwarding. I didn't realize it was required.

Note: for some reason strikethrough isn't working (otherwise, I'd apply it to the original question. Also, not sure if I should delete this post now that it is working, or leave it up in case other people have the same issue.

Does anyone know why qbittorrent would be showing 0 seeders if a tracker shows that there are several?

I am using Proton VPN and qbittorrent. The torrent file is from teamos [dot] xyz.

ProtonVPN settings:

Split tunneling enabled > Include mode > added app: qbittorrent
Connected to the Netherlands (Wireguard UDP)

qbitttorrent settings:

Network Interface set to ProtonVPN

Thank you

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Split tunneling for an app that wants to bind to the VPN interface? Are you sure that's right?

[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

What do you mean? Is that not correct? Is it where I have to choose between one or the other?

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

What is split tunneling in proton VPN?

[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

you can tell the VPN what you want to include/exclude:

Exclude mode: Selected apps and IP addresses are excluded from VPN connection, Include mode: Only selected apps and IP addresses connect via VPN, all other traffic is unprotected.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

Ohhh I read it backwards.

Do you have port forwarding enabled? You might not be able to connect to the peers for the reason they don't have an incoming port. They could also be fake peers as some trackers do that.

[-] Yourname942@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago

There we go! I had to enable port forwarding (didn't know that was required). Thank you.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

Yep :3

It took me a while to learn this but: peer to peer connections aren't magic. You either need at least one open port for each connection, or a relay. Some things use UPNP for the further, turnservers are compatible with the latter. Signal for examples use both, with an option to always relay calls (only the turnsurver)