Why is the debian BitTorrent tracker down ?

[Peter Colton <debian.user@bissybox.com>]

	Hello list,

	On the 07/11/2006 19:34 I was go to torrent in the netinstaller cd but the 
BitTornado client I use would not connect to the tracker.  The client 
returned the error : 111 connection refused. The .torrent file that I was 
used was : debian-31r3-i386-netinst.iso.torrent 
I tryed a couple of other .torrent files from the page  
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/bt-cd/ 
But still no luck.

So why is the tracker down is it because of DOS attacks ? If so try restarting 
the tracker every two mins. The reason I give this bit of advise is because I 
run a tracker myself and a couple of weeks ago the tracker  was being crashed 
with DOS attacks. The way I sevled this problem was to use a cron job to 
start the tracker every two mins. The tracker software is use is :
tracker version: T-0.3.11 (BitTornado)

	Hope the tracker is back up soon.

		Regards

                      peter colton