How to fix transmission unable to download and
connect to torrent tracker on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10
As you can read in my few previous posts I have just installed a
new Ubuntu 10.10 on a Toshiba Satellite L40 notebook.
Most of the things which are necessery for a fully working Linux
desktop are already installed and the machine works fine, however I
just noticed there is an issue with the
default torrent gnome
client and
transmission unable to download files from
torrent trackers.
Few minutes of playing with the transmission's settings has
revealed what was causing my torrent download problems.
It seems on Ubuntu 10.10 (probably on other Ubuntus and Debians) by
default the transmission bittorrent client is trying to use for
torrent download connections an incoming port 53636 number.
As the computer is behind a firewall and does not have a real IP
address seeders cannot properly connect to the notebook port 53636
and hence the transmission bittorrent client could not initialize
any torrent downloads.
Fixing up the issue is rather easy to fix it I had to change the
settings in transmission from the menus:
Edit -> Settings -> Network
You need to select the options:
- Pick a random port on startup
- Use UPnP or NAT-PMP to redirect connections
Next I had to restart
transmission and my torrent downloads
started ;)