You need to enable the extensions like this in libtorrent >= 0.16.5: self.session.add_extension("ut_pex") self.session.add_extension("ut_metadata") self.session.add_extension("smart_ban") self.session.add_extension("metadata_transfer") Thanks, that fixes the ...

And indeed setting the flags to 0 when creating the session will stop it from connecting to trackers. Any existing download that I had going continued to download, but I could not get any new infohash's to get to download after that change. They got peers but no seeders. Here's the diff of what I tr...

You need to report it to libtorrent bug tracker then: https://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/issues/list This from libtorrent developer (https://code.google.com/p/libtorrent/issues/detail?id=404&can=5): "There's an extension in libtorrent called tracker exchange, which works a bit like peer ...

I upgraded to 0.16.5.0 and the problem persists.

Cas wrote:This must be a bug in libtorrent. What version are you using?

libtorrent: 0.16.3.0

I'm not 100% sure but I thin the problem did appear after I upgraded to latest Ubuntu server (which runs the deluge server).

You will get seeders and peers if you have DHT enabled. Where are you seeing information that it is contacting trackers? It said so in both Status and Details tabs under the item Tracker. The tracker list itself is empty (because I didn't add any trackers). Let's attach screenshot so you'll see it....

Please can you provide and example infohash and the trackers that are added. This is just some random infohash from torrentz.eu search: 5201a1b4590c0fe26403c371f84e3ee8515d9d0a It connected to udp://tracker.yify-torrents.com/announce, but the behavior is that if the connect fails, it would still fi...

Hi, I have problem with 1.3.5 deluge. If I add a new torrent using only the infohash and nothing else, no trackers, nothing, deluge still, somehow, magically finds trackers from somewhere and connects to them. Where does it find the trackers? Why does it connect to them when I have not defined a sin...