Tracker request frequency

[AdamK]

I'd like to be able to set the frequency tracker is asked for update. Some tracker have strict http flood limits, and ban clients asking to frequently.

[charles]

Transmission already honors the tracker's limits for automatic and human-driven announces, so the current behavior will not result in banning.

In fact, allowing users to set the frequency would probably result in more Transmission bans because it could be used to manually flood the tracker.

I really don't see the use case where this would be desirable...?

[AdamK]

Trakcer returns limits for a single torrent, but some have also a global limit for all torrents being downloaded by an user. If this limit is exceded - they ban the user.

[livings124]

That's nowhere in the bittorrent spec. Where are you seeing this?

[AdamK]

Is banning anywhere in the bittorent spec? It is just a way some trackers behave.

[charles]

He's asking if the global limit for all torrents is somewhere in the spec.

I don't know of any client that does what you're requesting here. So under the behavior you're describing, all clients would be at risk of banning.

[livings124]

We aren't going to modify the core behavior of the client to abide for some arbitrary demand of an unnamed tracker. There is no spec for this, and quite frankly it makes very little sense.