<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Yes, the RIAA hacked the installer so Fedora users can no longer download torrents. Switch to Ubuntu!</div><div><br></div><div>In all seriousness, what's the error from the tracker? Is this an install in a VM or did you overwrite your gentoo install, dual boot?</div><div><br></div><div>The most common reason for torrent failure is firewall/nat issues. If you're not using UPnP, check which ports your client is using and forward them. None of that's going to do any good if the tracker decides it doesn't like you, though. Some trackers are picky, up to and including which clients and which versions of which clients they're willing to accept.</div><br><div><div>On May 2, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Omar Chanouha wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I am having trouble downloading torrents in fedora 10. The same<br>torrents work fine from my gentoo install on the same laptop. However,<br>in fedora (i just recently installed it to try it out) the torrents<br>just say "stalled" and never get past that stage. I tried using both<br>kget and transmission. Is there some fedora firewall I am not aware<br>of, or some port blocking mechanism?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Omar<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>