Depending on how much of a mood you're in for some science, Linode does pro-rate adds/removes to the day; you could rent a 360 in another datacenter for the day and see if that works.

I suppose I could do that, if it's going to cost me as little as I think it would.

You're precluding the possibility of Linode employees being NIN fans, and already knowing this.

:)

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I have to be honest with you... I kind of assumed some of you guys would be, I don't know...you just seemed to me like those kind of geeks.

Anyways. So I got myself a third Linode in Newark and I got "Invalid Request" when trying to go to http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce - so that I'm thinking means it works - like I said, on my other Dallas nodes, it just hangs trying to connect.

I also wiped my second Linode clean and did the same test, it still just hangs. I have no idea what's going on or why all of a sudden it's not working, but my conclusion at this point that there's got to be some kind of filtering going on at Dallas even though I know it's been said multiple times by staff previously that there is none. I'm just not sure what's up. I'd love to know if anyone else in Dallas is able to connect to ANY tracker announce URL - and not you have been able to in the past...because so was I, at least I can only assume since I was seeding torrents before.

Thanks.

Oh and...any other suggestions for testing before I'm done with this Linode? I feel like I should do something else to further isolate the problem...but I don't see there being much else I can do other than maybe move the Linode to another DC to test...and I don't really feel like hassling the Linode staff over it.

I'm getting Invalid Requests on my VPS in the Dallas DC as well.

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Do you mind if I ask what host you're on? Both mine are in 55 and 60...so I'm not really sure what they could have all that in common other than being mine :-\ I kind of understood it might be possible that there was a configuration I had done which I hadn't thought of to my Linodes to stop this from working...but I just wiped one and it still didn't want to connect, it's reasonable to assume, I'd think, that it's now a completely standard setup. This is really causing my head to hurt.

The only thing I can think of at this point is that The Pirate Bay (and I suppose some other trackers) decided to ban both of my IP's (odd, since I've never used BT before on one of my Linode's)...and I didn't even think there was any kind of ban list, for public trackers at least. I've now had two people tell me they can connect to the tracker from their Linode's in Dallas, so I'm all out of ideas right now.

Suggestions welcome! Thanks for the help thus far.