a few days ago, I have finished an open source project:

https://github.com/keks24/raspberry-pi-luks

Now, I want to distribute a large image file (~8 GiB) and some text files via Torrent. These files are also uploaded to a file hoster:

https://gofile.io/d/48Rnkz

I have created the Torrent file via "mktorrent" like so:

$ mktorrent --verbose --announce="http://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce" --announce=[...] --web-seed="https://srv-store4.gofile.io/download/48Rnkz/ee3a464731dc8453f7d9b214cdc445dc/raspberrypi_sd_card_backup.img" --web-seed="https://[...]" --output="raspberrypi_sd_card_backup.torrent" raspberry-pi-luks

This generates the file "raspberrypi_sd_card_backup.torrent" with direct links of the mentioned file hoster.

For testing purposes, I started seeding the Torrent via aria2c, which is in the network 192.168.1.0/24 and listens on port 44444. I then connected my laptop with my router's guest wifi, which is is in a different network 192.168.2.0/24, so I do not distribute the file via the internal network. Guests have unrestricted access.

When I started the download on my laptop via Transmission, the trackers indicated, that there is 1 seeder and 1 leecher. It also indicated, that there are 5 web seeds available, but the download did not start at all.

I also tested this setup with different clients: ctorrent, rtorrent and ktorrent, but all of them did not download anything.

I checked, if I did a mistrake creating the Torrent. ktorrent only indicated me, that only HTTP links are allowed as web seed link, so I created another Torrent file using the same links, but with http://, but it did not work as well.

Then, I checked, if my router configuration is correct. I forwarded port 44444 (TCP and UDP) for aria2c and I noticed, that my router uses a DS Lite tunnel, where IPv4 packages are tunneled through IPv6, so I checked, if aria2c listens to a IPv6 address and it does.

What did I do wrong?

-Keks