alykalanany
Dabbler
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2015
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This past year many bittorrent trackers, both public and private, have been DDoSed heavily, and therefore turned to Cloudflare for protection. In the process they also have turned on SSL / TLS for the announce URL. The problem is, the Transmission plugin does not seem to support this with Cloudflares version of SSL / TLS, or rather the Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension.
The error message from Transmission when this is the case is a simple "Could not connect to tracker". However Transmission seems to work with SNI on other platforms, providing the system is up to date in other aspects as shown below.
So my question is, are there any plans to update the Transmission plugin to work with this? Is there anything a simple user can do to fix it? Is it maybe already fixed in Freenas 11 or Corrall? This is all based on FreeNAS 9.10 STABLE release, currently 9.10.2-U3.
Here are some suggested reasons for failure, from the forum of one of the many trackers that are now operating behind Cloudflare.
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The error message from Transmission when this is the case is a simple "Could not connect to tracker". However Transmission seems to work with SNI on other platforms, providing the system is up to date in other aspects as shown below.
So my question is, are there any plans to update the Transmission plugin to work with this? Is there anything a simple user can do to fix it? Is it maybe already fixed in Freenas 11 or Corrall? This is all based on FreeNAS 9.10 STABLE release, currently 9.10.2-U3.
Here are some suggested reasons for failure, from the forum of one of the many trackers that are now operating behind Cloudflare.
- outdated openssl version not supporting SNI
- outdated version of libtorrent (For Linux)
- outdated CA certificates list (usually the case for Let's Encrypt CA certs that were added not that long ago)
- rtorrent/OS not configured properly to locate file containing CA certs
- outdated client version not supporting SNI
- outdated version of curl
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