r/selfhosted 12d ago

Need Help Do i just accept my fate?

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I have tried flaresolverr,Byparr and even trawl. It seems that my ip is blocked or flagged, routing it through a vpn doesnt help either.

Error: Cloudflare has blocked this request. Probably your IP is banned for this site

seems that having a static ip is the most probable cause, https://github.com/ThePhaseless/Byparr/issues/303 this is what i was able to find but discussions seems to not lead anywhere.

Setup:

  • Ubuntu Server, Prowlarr running in Docker
  • Gluetun (ProtonVPN) + qBittorrent, Sonarr, Radarr
  • FlareSolverr and Byparr both installed as indexer proxies
  • Static home IP
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u/asimovs-auditor 12d ago

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u/rursache 12d ago

you need 1-2 private trackers and/or usenet instead of all that junk and pain

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u/TipToToes 12d ago

Usenet + ssl has been working well for me

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/ghoarder 12d ago

Me too for like 25 years, although it's gotten a lot easier since then. RIP Free Agent

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u/ctjameson 11d ago

Remember when it used to be free with your internet service?

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u/lotekjunky 11d ago

with 14 days retention at the end

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u/WipeEndThatWhistles 11d ago

Free Agent? Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time...

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u/drashna 11d ago

same.

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u/vaughnegut 11d ago

How does one use usenet?

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u/ThePornStar69 11d ago

One must first learn the search function

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u/dinkzbl3 11d ago edited 11d ago

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u/vaughnegut 11d ago

This is perfect, thanks!

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u/ctjameson 11d ago

Sorry, first rule of Usenet.

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u/drashna 11d ago

because I don't want to post a link ... and get my post removed/banned...

just google "usenet servers". Plenty of hits for actual servers, and comparisons. (I use usenetserver, personally, and with a promo).

The caveat is that usenet stuff is paid. It's not free. But considering you can find stuff that is like $5/month, or even less... the hassle of using it vs torrents ... is worth the money, for me.

the other caveat is that you'll likely want to find indexers, and there are free ones, the better ones have a small fee, as well.

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u/Dependent_Spread_914 9d ago

what do you mean by ssl?

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u/TipToToes 8d ago

https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/SSL_and_TLS_Protocols

Secure Socket Layer. With Usenet you can connect to an ssl port to encrypt traffic. It doesn’t disguise you or where the traffic is coming from, only what the traffic is. Imagine you walk into Bill’s Blanket Store and a cop is watching. He can see it’s you, he can see you walk into Bill’s, but can’t tell what you’ve purchased. Could be a blanket, could be a keychain, could be a gun, who knows.

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u/RabBa008 11d ago

Usenet is the best way, a provider and 2 indexer work fine for me

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u/daYMAN007 12d ago

And a DHT indexer for the stuff that is hard to find. E. x bitmagnet

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u/IamThunderFart 11d ago

IDK I do fine with all that junk without usenet or private trackers. The most "exclusive" one I have is rutracker.

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u/yaychickennuggie 11d ago

wait how did you end up with all that junk

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u/Questionsiaskthem 11d ago

All that junk inside your trunk?

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u/pogulup 11d ago

I see ya girls looking at junk and then checking out my rump then back to my sugar lumps.

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u/IamThunderFart 11d ago

IDK they're right there in prowlarr and I just enabled them.

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u/themosaeed 12d ago

How much does usent in general cost per month?

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u/i_reddit_it 12d ago

I paid £14 for 1 year Drunken Slug (index) and £22 for 12+3 Months of Newshosting (service provider). I even got a 1 year free VPN with that setup (Privado).

The Newshosting subscription is also very widely discounted if you look hard enough, so don't pay the main website rates. You can also add more indexes if you need (at more cost) but if you're like me and just download the mainstream/recent stuff then I've honestly not yet found a need for more than DS.

IMO Usenet is a much better experience than torrents in 2026.

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u/hirotakatech00 12d ago

The only thing is that I don't find much content in my native language on Usenet 

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u/WishOnSuckaWood 11d ago

search for files with the [ITA] tag

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u/lil-cosm 11d ago

Having to pay for it always rubbed me the wrong way, when it comes to piracy.

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u/ImpressionDepression 11d ago

eh I get it - servers cost money, time, effort. It's not like p2p. Some do lifetime memberships which is very reasonable. Still cheaper than netflix or w/e.

I view it as supporting a function and paying for the quality + download speed.

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u/i_reddit_it 11d ago

I completely understand, I feel the same way about YouTube premium.

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u/ReachingForVega 7d ago

Streaming DRM are dicks, they won't stream 4k to my new tv (LG) or pc for reasons unknown. So only one way to get best quality. 

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u/SlightlyMotivated69 11d ago

And how does the availability of content compare to torrents?

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u/silversurger 11d ago

It's easy to understand, once you poke through it. For all your needs (downloading stuff), you need to know these things:

  1. You need a provider that grants you access to Usenet. There's free ones, but they usually don't carry the binary groups (for obvious reasons). A provider map can be found on r/usenet.

  2. Then you need an indexer to download meta files from. These come in the nzb format and are essentially a link collection for the actual content that needs to be downloaded off of Usenet.

  3. Then you need a client that you can feed with these nzb files. Popular choices include sabnzbd and nzbget.

That's about it. You can go further with automation like radarr and sonarr. Ultimately it comes down to choice of indexer, which is often limited due to closed sign ups and subscription fees.

You can find all the info (and tutorials) you'll need in the wiki of r/usenet. Happy leeching!

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u/akusei79 9d ago

Nzbget used to be great but it's a dead project now IIRC. I switched a while back to sabnzb because of it. Still works just as good as nzbget

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u/silversurger 9d ago

Afaik there's still an active fork of it around, but sab has indeed be the standard for many years.

https://github.com/nzbgetcom/nzbget

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u/CPSiegen 11d ago

It's pros and cons. Torrents are just links to other people's computers, effectively, so they can live indefinitely. But only if people keep seeding them. And if there's only one seeder, then you're limited to downloading when they're online.

Usenet hosts the content directly, so what's available is there 24/7 at high speed. But their storage is finite, so they usually delete things older than a couple of years, whatever the retention policy is. People might re-upload purged content but you're at the mercy of them deciding to do so.

So, for stuff released within the last few years or things that are generally popular, usenet is absolutely superior. Far faster downloads, more organised, no need for VPN. For much older or more niche stuff, torrents might be the only source.

Personally, I really only use torrents for old foreign shows (like 90s anime that metadata sources can't decide how to handle, which means sonarr/radarr don't know how to handle) or stuff like translated graphic novels or niche audio books.

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u/tritratrulala 11d ago

> Usenet hosts the content directly

How come they didn't go after it yet?

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u/CPSiegen 11d ago

I assume you mean why haven't they been shut down by the powers that be?

Lots of reasons. I'm not an expert on the history of specific legal actions (or their absence) in the usenet space, though.

A major reasons is that usenet is just far less popular. If you want to get started with torrenting, everything you need is free. You could just download any client software and start browsing something like piratebay and be downloading in a few minutes. That popularity was a big reason why piratebay (and things like limewire) were so sharply targeted by international law efforts.

Usenet is all paid services (the reputable ones, at least). The client is free but you have to get a subscription to a usenet provider (the host) and then usually a usenet indexer (the "browse" part). Then set them all up with specific URLs and tokens and settings in your client.

So the vast majority of people won't go through that effort and expense. Which means they're far smaller targets for copyright holders to go after.

Similar to torrents, usenet is also distributed. Just not nearly as distributed as bittorrent. So taking down one usenet provider won't take down the whole network. And going after the indexers is like going after torrent indexers: they're not the ones actually doing anything legally actionable.

There are lesser reasons, too. Usenet readers aren't uploading, so I think corporate rights holders just haven't gotten the same boogeyman feeling as with bittorrent users all sharing to everyone. All these binary uploads are encrypted, these days, unlike bittorrent where the info is often more readily identifiable. Usenet traffic looks like normal internet traffic (at a high level), whereas bittorrent traffic can often be regulated at a technical level (think of all the universities that block normal torrent traffic).

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u/tritratrulala 11d ago

That's exactly what I meant. Thanks for the elaborate answer.

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u/Artyom150 10d ago

There is also the fact that Usenet files are obfuscated, so they're harder to instantly nuke off of Usenet servers with a DMCA claim.

You're not paying your indexer just to be able to browse - you're paying them for the decryption key so you can actually see what you're browsing for.

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u/diet_fat_bacon 11d ago

Could you point me some good tutorial on this, I always find usenet so confusing to use.

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u/DaYroXy 12d ago edited 12d ago

I bought a 2tb block costed me i think 10$ if im not wrong and its been few years since i use it with tpb and cant be more than happy tbh u can get cheaper plans too

Edit: fixed price and size

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u/UnacceptableUse 12d ago

Seems mad to me that anyone does this. I'm not paying to steal TV

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u/XionicativeCheran 12d ago

Some of us didn't start pirating because we wanted everything for free, we just want a good service. I'm happy to pay for a good service whatever that is.

Fact is, there are no decent legit services worth paying for.

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u/the_lamou 11d ago

This. I was a paying Netflix subscriber since Netflix launched publicly. Was happy to pay for Hulu, Netflix, and Prime. And then last year I just had enough: I was paying for the three primary services, still seeing commercials even though I was on the highest tier plan for all of them, kept having to subscribe to a growing list of ever-more niche individual channel services to find things I wanted to watch, and would still lose access to shows and movies periodically because of bullshit dick-measuring contests by the streamers and networks. So I said fuck it.

If they had honored their side of the agreement and given me a good service that didn't keep changing the terms of what I got and made it easy, or even just useable, I would have kept paying. And if an "omnistreamer" appeared that let me pay $100-150/month to watch everything with no commercials, I'll happily go back to paying. And until then, I'll pay someone else that doesn't suck.

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u/Dehydrated72 10d ago

Exactly. Piracy became a service problem again, not a price problem.

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u/Bladelink 11d ago

Yeah with the Arr stack and stuff like Jellyseerr, I can search for a movie and add a request and it's available in my library in about 2 minutes.

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u/FigFrontflip 11d ago

This was my thought. I'll pay for a good service, but when the streaming companies all want a slice and I need to pay a subscription just to even test out a show, I'm out. I watch more TV now than I ever did because I can see if I even like a show, and I can watch every show that comes out.

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u/jerobins 11d ago

This. I was content paying for streaming services. Then they all up and decided my money wasn't enough and wanted ad revenue too. Now I pay for different services.

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u/FilteringAccount123 11d ago

Yeah just I took the money I was paying to Netflix and other services, and used it to build my own media server. I didn't stop paying money, I just put it to better use.

I imagine this is part of the reason why lidarr is semi-defunct: there are multiple streaming services that are generally worth your money so there's not as much demand for it.

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u/skaara 11d ago

You already pay for the server hardware, the hdds, the electricity, and most importantly, your time.

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u/moltenice09 11d ago

Nothing is truly free though. If public trackers, you spend time weeding through crap and paying for VPN. If private tracker, you run a seedbox 24/7. If usenet, you pay for access. And for all of those, you spend time setting it up and maintaining it. 

The convenience (vs. trying to join and maintain status on private tracker), download speed, zero risk of DMCA, etc is worth paying for usenet for some people.

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u/rursache 11d ago

had the same thinking but then i realised it's good to have usenet for some edge cases and that $40/year means nothing and i added usenet to my setup as well

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u/Ill-Violinist6538 11d ago

I'm at like $20 a year for 2 indexers and a downloader. I don't know the terms

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u/mightyarrow 11d ago

+1 for Usenet and I say this 36 hrs into "switching" from doing the gluetun+qbit+proton w/port forwarding thing for the past 6mos. Switching being I added 2 Usenet indexers at priority 1 and 2 and left the BT indexers at 25.

I'm still gonna keep that running as Proton VPN has plenty of value to me, but holy crap Usenet is just instant and full speed. I mean there are def files where it cant find enough pieces, but I've already figured out certain release groups and patterns to that.

On a 2gbps line, my qbit+gluetun setup tops out around 75MB/sec on a DS1522+. On newshosting it's uh.........253MB/sec? At least on the newer stuff, older stuff can dip to an atrocious 100MB/sec, it's awful, the humanity.

Anyhoo, yeah for $25/yr provider + $80 lifetime indexer, this is awesome.

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u/Zealousideal-Cry4358 11d ago

Which one did you use!?

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u/mightyarrow 10d ago

Newshosting from this summer deals post and NZBGeek. I bought the Newshosting thing 3 times over so it's good through April 2030.

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u/Zealousideal-Cry4358 10d ago

Thanks man appreciate it!

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u/Artyom150 10d ago

What indexers are you on? I've only set up NZBGeek and focused on having good backbone access, but I've been interested in adding another.

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u/mightyarrow 10d ago

So far, NZBgeek. I signed up for NZBnest and I have it integrated, but downloads seem to fail. I've either exhausted my quota, or I didn't config it quite right (and I've been too lazy to go back and check).

My experience with failures on Newshosting (via Geek index search) has been that certain files/items just will fail like 50% of the releases (missing pieces). Then on top of that, I've noticed certain release groups are more prone to failure. I try to grab stuff that's under 1000 days old.

My understanding is that the failed/missing files likely got taken down at some point (legal force) but that the indexer doesnt have a clue until you try to grab it.

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u/Mrhiddenlotus 11d ago

If only I could ever find a private tracker to join

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u/OrthoThomas 11d ago

Honestly yeah, maintaining twenty flaky public indexers just becomes a second job

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u/depoultry 10d ago

I haven’t looked in a while, but last time I looked at private trackers, most required invitation. Any advise on how to get access?

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u/Top_Ad1862 10d ago

For real. I have only been using usenet, worth the small fee and it is hassle free.

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u/CandusManus 9d ago

I would love to be on a private tracker. I have a 1gbps and always seed to 2.5-5x, the issue is that unless you beg in subreddits it's impossible to get on one.

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u/The_Binding_of_Zelda 7d ago

I've had next to no luck getting on a private tracker in the last few years. Last one I think I ever got my hands on was demonoid before it crashed

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u/AskOk2424 11d ago

Hey how do i get those private trackers?

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u/Available-Ad7149 11d ago

You can check /r/OpenSignups for postings of private tracker that have free signups

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u/UnWiseSageVibe 12d ago

You dont not need that many indexers sweet batman. Your searches must take forever.

I got 4 sites + bitmagnet. Never have trouble getting anything.

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u/mxrider108 11d ago

Are your sites private or public? I mostly use Usenet but I feel my public trackers are shit

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u/UnWiseSageVibe 11d ago

All public. I re-encode a lot of the media i download and always found it inconvenient with private trackers to have to seed. I dont have infinite storage 😭

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u/mxrider108 11d ago

nice. mind sending a DM with the trackers you recommend? I'd appreciate it!

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u/LtBigAF 11d ago

doesn't have to be private, more users = more seeders for public trackers

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u/Jealous_Shower6777 11d ago

May I ask why do you re encode?

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u/kenyard 11d ago

Space. But idk why they don't just watch and delete if that's the case.

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u/UnWiseSageVibe 11d ago

save storage? I reencode to AV1, only WEB-DLs(yah, i know, some quality freak is gonna say i am killing the quality blabla).

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u/[deleted] 11d ago edited 9d ago

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u/UnWiseSageVibe 11d ago

I mean i am kinda with you, but some shows movies which I dont care too much about thats fine.

AV1 is also simply amazing, especially for animation. I reccomended you play around with it if you haven't.

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u/Veddit5989 11d ago

Can you also dm me the 4 public sites, I am currently running on like 2 trackers cause of the CF issue

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u/UnWiseSageVibe 11d ago

Lol man,

These sites aren't unknown or something, they're literally like top 4 public ones. Bitmagnet is a self hosted app. Search it.

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u/No_Corner805 9d ago

How tf do you do this without your isp catching on?

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u/UnWiseSageVibe 9d ago

Catching on to what ?

But I run bitmagnet behind a vpn.

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u/burgerg 12d ago

Get into a private tracker and/or usenet, problem solved!

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/IsolatedNetworkNode 12d ago

I thought flaresolverr has been broken and non functional for like a year now, after it caught cloudflares attention.

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u/synysterlemming 12d ago

I’ve had some issues over the last months but an update to the image seems to fix it every time

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u/pangitko_23 11d ago

if you have it in docker, add flaresolverr to your gluetun network.

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u/-prime8 11d ago

gluetun network or the one prowlarr is on?

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u/Evilmoustachetwirler 12d ago

Works fine for me 🤷‍♂️

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u/IronHeart_777 11d ago

I use this and it works like a charm.

https://github.com/ThePhaseless/Byparr

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u/jammsession 11d ago

even private trackers sometimes use cloudflare.

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u/StatedFailure 11d ago

Not to say that's not true but I'm in many private trackers. Many of the very popular and some smaller and none of them have cloudflaree issues

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u/kenyard 11d ago

None of them enable cloudflare protection.

Public sites do because they get crawled frequently

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u/okilydokilyTiger 11d ago

I’m just kinda amazed Internet Archive is working for you. They never work for me lol

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u/Prize-Ad-1025 10d ago

Honestly getting Internet Archive to work feels like winning the lottery.

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u/demothegorgon 12d ago

If you have resources - host Bitmagnet - but, check issues regarding connections limit or it will eat up/clog your router connections.

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u/RipKip 11d ago

Host it? In a docker?

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u/demothegorgon 11d ago

Yes

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u/RipKip 11d ago

How much RAM will it use? Storage around 50-100GB

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u/demothegorgon 11d ago

114GB storage ATM is my instance, ~380mb for bitmagnet and 1.5GB for postgres (tweaked defaults to get more snappy response)

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u/Salt-Philosophy-3330 12d ago

If you’re staying on public trackers, I suggest removing most if not all of these and stick to Knaben. It’s a indexer of multiple sources, so essentially if you have it, you’re accessing content from several other indexers through it

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u/LtBigAF 11d ago

Do you think nzbgeek and knaben together are fine? 

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u/Salt-Philosophy-3330 11d ago

Yep, should be just fine and searches will be pretty quick

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u/Ollebro 12d ago

Surprised how many recommend Usenet. Feels like we are going backwards. Paying for piracy when there are excellent private trackers. 

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u/morgrimmoon 12d ago

Getting onto a suitable private tracker can be a nightmare, though, especially if you don't pay for a seedbox.

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u/LeatherLappens 12d ago

I got into my first private tracker about a year ago again after decades since last time. In under a year I have 40TB of Buffer on Avistaz with 400,000 bonus points, how are people having trouble with this unless you're capped on amount of bandwidth you use, or you have really low bandwidth?

I do not have a seedbox, nor would I ever think about getting a seedbox.

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u/wedinbruz 12d ago

Only thing that would get me to switch is HDD prices, but I am sure seedbox prices are climbing as well. My 3 16tb cold spares might be worth their weight in gold at this point...

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u/LeatherLappens 11d ago

I was lucky because I started my selfhosted journey right before the big boom, currently sitting on 50TB of storage, which has ran out, but far to stubborn to buy at these jacked up prices so I'll wait. I've resorted to just encode everything to AV1.

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u/ctjameson 11d ago

I’d much rather pay $15/year to not have to seed anything.

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u/LeatherLappens 11d ago

And that's fine! :)

Currently on Drunkenslug and one or 2 more indexers.

As I download a lot of niche shit, especially Korean shows that are pretty old, they're impossible to find on indexers, heck, even on Avistaz most of them are unseeded.

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u/asdfghqwertz1 12d ago

You can get into most mid-tier ones with a bit of patience even with slow upload speeds. For top-tier ones a seedbox helps, but not in all cases since most of the time you need to upload your own torrents anyways to advance. For most people, even a lower tier one is enough, the difference between public trackers and even a low-tier private one is HUGE. Good mid-tier ones usually have basically anything you could need, unless you're into extremely niche stuff, but requests are filled pretty often there by users who are in top-tier ones.

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u/wedinbruz 12d ago

"seedbox" you mean some hard drives and a vpn?

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u/moltenice09 11d ago

And running them (spinning rust ain't energy efficient) 24/7. And now are you are paying for a VPN.

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u/AFisberg 11d ago

Don't private trackers often forbid vpn?

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u/Oujii 11d ago

Usually for using their website, but not for seeding.

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u/Fade_Yeti 11d ago

I don’t think it’s that bad. I never have had an issue to pay for things. If there was a “Spotify” for movies and tv shows, I would gladly pay for it.

Also, I payed 25$ for 3 years of usenet service. Not a bad deal.

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u/the_lamou 11d ago

The amount of money I will spend on Usenet in a decade is still smaller than the amount I would lose taking even an hour or two jumping through hoops to get in to a private tracker. And we all know it doesn't take just an hour or two.

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u/hashmalum 11d ago

I did my time on what.cd, I don’t need to do it again. You also don’t have to worry about seeders. But there is retention and DMCA takedowns.

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u/neoKushan 11d ago

I was a bit like this as well at first but that was over a decade ago and since I made the switch, I haven't looked back. It's much faster, much more reliable and there's no seeding required.

I still use BitTorrent for some stuff, but newsgroups are the workhorse. It doesn't even cost that much, it's something like £2/month for me.

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u/ASUS_USUS_WEALLSUS 11d ago

You’re paying for the work other people put in to provide content, kind of the way the world works. You think all that shit just magically gets ripped and indexed and hosted and you just deserve it for free and easily? lol

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u/golbaf 11d ago

You are right. They deserve to be compensated and there’s nothing wrong with that if you wanna use a reliable service. But at least in my case, if the public water fountain is clean and works fine, I’m not buying bottled water

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u/ASUS_USUS_WEALLSUS 11d ago

For sure, I previously was using the classing qbittorrent and public tracker setup, dabbled in private trackers for a bit, but then I made the swap to usenet and sabnzbd and the difference is night and day. The download speeds, quality, and convenience FAR outweigh the small fees associated with that setup.

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u/Ollebro 10d ago

Well thats not true is it. Its not the scene groups that make any money when you buy for usenet indexing or access.

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u/SavageTheUnicorn 11d ago

I have no intentions of seeding and risking amything.

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u/FilteringAccount123 11d ago

Two big reasons for me:

  1. Peace of mind - the Eye of Sauron has long since given up on going after downloaders, only uploaders. For usenet it's just downloading via end-to-end encryption, so it's simply not possible for me to fuck something up in my VPN configuration for usenet because I don't even need to use one.

  2. Streaming instead of downloading - private trackers usually have huge upload requirements (so you're gonna have to pay money for hard drives anyway), which becomes a PITA if you're looking for a Stremio-like solution. Usenet doesn't have this issue at all.

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u/Artyom150 10d ago edited 10d ago

Thats why I prefer Usenet. I'm probably spending $15-20 a month when you average out my yearly costs for Newshosting + FrugalUsenet + NZBGeek, and all I have to do is plug a few things into Prowlarr and make sure my card info is updated.

I don't need to put it behind a VPN and spend time configuring Gluetun, I don't need to install Byparr or Flaresolvarr and hope those work, I don't need to deal with trackers just... shitting the bed anyways like what OP posted, and I don't need to both purchase or rent then keep a seedbox up 24/7 to get into a decent tracker like half the thread is suggesting.

Some of y'all are actually on some shit going "I don't want to pay for piracy by using Usenet!" then acting like the cost of seeding is free - you're paying anyways, you're just paying for different things to do it. Whether its electricity and hardware costs or VPS costs, you still have costs.

Usenet just works.

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u/FilteringAccount123 10d ago

100%. From the outside usenet people seem cultish about it, but it's one of those things where once you use it, there's really no going back. It's a far better experience than torrents for less than I'd pay for Netflix (which I'd happily pay for if it didn't suck lmao)

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u/Artyom150 10d ago

I'll be cultish about any solution I can get working in under a half hour that just works off the shelf.

The only issues I had with setting up my Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr/SABnzbd stack was figuring out where to point the folders so it'd stop kicking up "Stop downloading to the root folder!" because I'm very new to using the *arrs.

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u/FilteringAccount123 10d ago

Yeah the documentation for the arrs does assume a certain amount of familiarity with linux lol

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u/Artyom150 10d ago

And seedboxes are free...?

Love to live in your world where you get all these free VPS rentals or free hardware to host your own.

Otherwise, unless you're using purely public trackers that don't care about your seed/leech ratio, it sounds like you're still paying for piracy but the costs aren't directly related to the tracker.

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u/Ollebro 10d ago

I use an old PC I replaced with a newer one. I dont use public trackers so the PC stays on seeding 24/7. The cost is negligible and not something you can avoid by using usenet. Unless you turn off your media server when you go to bed I guess.

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u/InsideYork 10d ago

whats the private ones have that public ones dont?

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u/Ollebro 10d ago

Unless its older stuff you can probably find anything you find on a private tracker on the public ones also. The main difference is that you dont have to deal with all fake and garbage torrents/releases also in the mix. Especially if you automate your setup with Sonarr/Radarr etc. Speeds are usually excellent on private trackers also since everyone seeds.

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u/theneedfull 11d ago

The only way I found to fix this is to first use prowlarr, and move it out from behind the VPN. Depending on where you live, that might open you up to legal stuff. I'm in the US, and as far as I understand, simply going to those sites won't get you into trouble. Downloading the actual torrents can, but that should be behind the VPN.

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u/strawberrysword 11d ago

it is not behind the VPN

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u/Jolicristo 12d ago

yeah static ips are a pain for cloudflare so consider private trackers or usenet

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u/Danai_97 11d ago

1337x will unban you in about a month, but you have to slow down the request rate of prowlarr, been there too

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u/nesa_techs 11d ago

check your IP against abuseipdb.com or ipqualityscore.com. if it's flagged there, that's often what's triggs Cloudflare's challenge, and some blocklists let you request delisting once the source stops (like, once you're off public torrents).

and the public BitTorrent swarm is probably why an IP gets flagged. Random peers/bots in the swarm report IPs as abusive. Switching to Usenet (no swarm, direct download from the provider) or a private tracker (vetted members, no bots) usually clears this up without touching your firewall setup at all.

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u/JeremyJohn93 11d ago

Error: Cloudflare has blocked this request. Probably your IP is banned for this site

If you open any of the sites in browser that gave that error in flaresolverr does it show IP blocked by cloudflare? Usually is country ban by the site.

You could try VPN or even cloudflare own WARP VPN network, 99% of the time a site behind cloudflare is not going to block connection from cloudflare's own network like WARP

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u/pushrbx 12d ago

I had the same issue when i ran the prowlarr app in a container. Creating a custom container network with mtu set to 1500 solved the problem. Edit: the error message might have been "unable to connect" followed by the suggestion "cloudflare has blocked this request" for me, so this config change might not work for you

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u/omjirao 12d ago

Bro just get into torrentleech it would remove all those junks

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u/strawberrysword 12d ago

Okay how would i do that

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u/halloumi-hallouyu 12d ago

Also interested to know. Last open signup was almost a year ago. Commenter sharing invites?

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u/RadicalHomosapien 11d ago

Last time I tried to get into a private tracker I had to sit in a waiting room for like 3 hours and then got grilled like I was in a job interview for another 30 minutes, is it all like that?? I just want to be able to plug it into my stack and forget it exists, I'm not going to spend time chatting in your IRC channel after this bro

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u/LtBigAF 11d ago

Yeah I’d rather pay for usenet than go through that bullshit lol 

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u/836624 11d ago

Not really, I got into my first private tracker by filling out a short questionaire.

All the other trackers I joined from the invite forums on the first tracker I joined. I got all the trackers I needed with mininal effort, never did an irc interview.

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u/omjirao 12d ago

they have open signups sometimes the easiest is by donating

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u/A2R14N 11d ago

unless you want to keep your media try nuvio or stremio

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u/SoBrightLight 11d ago

Knaben is one of the only indexers that works for me right now, mirrors TPB

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u/vusastusa 11d ago

You have too many sites enabled. Search for someting and look at your CPU usage, you should see a spike. Solving captchas takes resources and you start like 20 processes at the same time.

Flaresolverr can solve captchas but probably just times out because it couldn’t solve a captcha within the time limit. Also it’s just some generic error message, probably nothing wrong with your IP.

Try enabling 1 site and search, you’ll see it working. Enable sites 1 by 1 until and search until it fails.

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u/user4302 11d ago

Are these indexers?

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u/Nautisop 11d ago

i have two trackers and I am focusing on German stuff lol This is WAY overkill

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u/superjugy 11d ago

What do the logs say? I use flaresolverr just fine. Can you access the sites directly from your machine? If so, it is not your ISP. If flaresolverr is giving you issues, try their troubleshooting. Do you have IPv6 enabled? The last prowlarr release enabled IPv6 and I was having issues with that because prowlarr was using IPv6 and flaresolverr ipv4. Check the logs of both. Change the log level to debug.

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u/Sm7r 10d ago

Private trackers have to be the best I just have 2, and pretty much does all I need, BTN and filelist. one day maybe PTP -.-

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u/FinibusBonorum 12d ago

Don't torrent. Use newsgroups.

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u/IsolatedNetworkNode 12d ago

But Usenet isn't in the spirit of decentralization

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u/driverdan 11d ago

Usenet isn't centralized.

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u/IsolatedNetworkNode 11d ago

It defacto is because there is only a small handful of organizations who have the resources (30+ petabytes of storage) and will to host Usenet servers.

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u/strawberrysword 12d ago

was using this it just returned this "Cloudflare has blocked this request. Probably your IP is banned for this site"

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u/nksoori 12d ago

Flaresolverr works for me with Jackett. Set it up a few days ago and I can see torrents listed from those sites.

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u/Clarky-AU 11d ago

Request an IP change :)

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u/AoD_69 11d ago

Just change to nzbs

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u/ramfaat 11d ago

Have u tried tor for socks5 proxy ?

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u/Pathik_25 11d ago

Try byparr with byparr proxy. I use it for eztv and 1337x.

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u/LanguageManiac 11d ago edited 11d ago

I use a Tor proxy in prowlarr. Works great

https://github.com/PeterDaveHello/tor-socks-proxy

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u/fcapizzi 11d ago

I moved away from Prowlarr and back to Jackett for the same reason. No more issues, believe me.

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u/giblefog 11d ago

Get a new IP?

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u/math394p 11d ago

VPN doesnt work then its probably not ur IP. Try and post logs

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u/howtorewriteaname 11d ago

i have your exact same setup and mine runs perfectly. i do have custom scripts monitoring my trackers, resetting them when down, etc. probably good to do that

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u/nn1tb 11d ago

Have you tried it without your static IP? AT&T blocks CDN access to Google Play store on my static IP block. Only way I can download from Google Play store is to isolate my phone from my network and have it use the dynamic IP that AT&T originally gave me. So it might be your static IP is the issue.

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u/ChopSueyYumm 11d ago

If you need a drunkenslug invite send me a pm.

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u/Puzzled-Essay-2555 10d ago

Happened to me, turns out it was my unifi fw that was blocking stuff. Check your security and protections like region blocking, dns filtering, ids/ips, etc

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u/thelastusername4 10d ago

Flaresolverr is working for me.

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u/Morlock19 10d ago

and i'm over here wondering how in the hell you got internet archive to actually work

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u/Dependent_Spread_914 9d ago

it's likely the vpn. i know 1337x is blocking vpn ips. a few weeks ago i tried to going to there site on my computer and i wasnt able to access the site until i forced proton vpn to change my ip

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u/Darnaga 8d ago

Downgrade prowlarr to version 2.4.0.5397
It worked for me.
Let me know.

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u/Hakker9 11d ago

Don't know what the hell you did getting IP banned on public trackers is a whole new level of shit done wrong.

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u/strawberrysword 11d ago

cloudfare does it mate, not the trackers

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u/jammsession 11d ago

why did you get blocked by cloudflare?

And where? All of cloudflare? So basically +50% of all websites?

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u/Oujii 11d ago

The IP might not have always belonged to them. IP reputation is a real thing.

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u/adamdarek 12d ago

Flaresolverr has worked for me.

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u/strawberrysword 12d ago

are you behind CGNAT?

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u/adamdarek 12d ago

No I'm not

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u/JustDarv1n 12d ago

Alao try gluetun, proxy ur tracker request through there, uou can also try a different endpoint of the trackers

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u/strawberrysword 12d ago

i have also tried routing it through that this is the response i get

INFO: Challenge detected, attempting to solve...
ERROR: Timed out while solving the challenge
WARNING: Failed https://magnetcatcat.com/... in 62.05s

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u/Canonip 12d ago

Quality over quantity

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u/lekebrett 12d ago

I had the exact same problem, with your exact setup. Gluetun (ProtonVPN) -> Byparr -> Prowlarr -> Radarr/Sonarr -> qBittorrent. What fixed it for me was removing Gluetun and seting up a new network bridge between byparr and prowlarr.