Trackers Not Working

i've been using eztv as my nearly sole tv provider for quite a few years now. i
want to thank you guys for doing such amazing work.

however, recently, every single torrent by eztv is not working from my
connection, not one of them works. currently, these torrents are in my client
and tracker and errors for each are below them:


dexter.s02e05.hdtv.xvid-xor.avi
tracker2.istole.it:60500/announce
a timeout was reached

mythbusters.s05e19.dsr.xvid-int.avi
eztv.sladinki007.eu:60500/announce
failure reason "unregistered torrent"

mythbusters.s05e18.ws.dsr.xvid-crimson.avi
tracker2.istole.it:60500/announce
a timeout was reached


i wondered if my isp was blocking these connections, but if i try to telnet to
these ports it connects just fine.

i'm using rakshasa's bittorrent client (rtorrent) on my dedicated headless
server/bittorrent box. i know there are trackers starting to block rtorrent
recently (although i don't know why), and was wondering if that is what's going
on. it saddens me that my perfect setup (massive hard drive on a server, laptop
streams videos over my network to play the videos) is no longer working.

thanks for taking the time to help me!

these torrents work, especially the ones on tracker2.. however the sladinki
tracker seems to be rather overloaded atm.

i believe their is a dht mod for rtorrent. i suggest using it.