how tell if banned from public tracker (openbittorrent)?

**NYTReader** · 11-03-2009, 05:27 AM

I think my home IP has been banned at openbittorrent. Here is what I have:
- I cannot scrape the tracker from home
- I have no problems pinging it from home (no lost packets from tracker.openbittorrent.com)
- I have no problems scraping the tracker from my university
- there are no problems listed for the tracker at host-tracker.com

Is there a way to tell for sure if I have been banned by openbittorrent? And if so, is there a way to get the ban removed?

**dvdasacd** · 11-04-2009, 11:07 PM

Can you even *be* banned by a public tracker?

**LubTheStaringCat** · 11-04-2009, 11:48 PM

Who the hell do you know that's been banned from a public tracker?
They've got to have been a right mug If they've achieved that.

**xJohnxSmithx** · 11-05-2009, 05:59 AM

first off good questions. How the hell do you get banned from public trackers? I don't think you are banned. I can only guess that it has something to do with your ISP.
Good luck

**NYTReader** · 11-05-2009, 06:52 AM

Thanks for the feedback guys.

It sounds like this must be an ISP issue. But I am still confused as to what they are doing exactly:
- not completing blocking traffic (I can ping the site)
- the scrape typically fails but it does work on average avout every fifth try.

Very odd.

**KS-202** · 11-05-2009, 08:49 PM

Try connecting through a VPN, such as itshidden.com (it's free) - and see if this works. I've heard itshidden is successful for getting around ISP-throttling, such as Bell.

**sake** · 11-05-2009, 09:49 PM

Try to encrypt your data (i can help you with uTorrent)

**NYTReader** · 11-06-2009, 10:19 AM

sake:
thanks for the tip. is it just preferences >>> Bittorrent >> Protocol Encryption?

I noticed one other item which might help the tech folks here diagnose my case:
I only seem to have problems with certain torrents. That is, some torrents which have openbittorrent as their exclusive tracker do not have problems while others do (problems scraping and unable to find peers).