Magnet links not working behind VPN

[freecat 1]

Hi Everyone

I am helping a friend make the transition from windows to Linux. Everything is working just fine for him except we can not get magnet links to work when the VPN is on. He is running Ubuntu 16.04, connecting to VPN using openvpn and is using Vuze for a torrent client. Torrent files download fast and web browsing works perfectly but magnet links fail to do anything, they just sit there trying to connect, they never connect or throw a error. As soon as I take the vpn down the connect immediately. I have tried both UDP and TCP Vpn connections and several different torrent clients and get the same results. I have a similar setup on one of my machines and have not had any problems with magnet links and cannot figure out what is going on. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[go558a83nk 364]

Try different servers and/or try a different forwarded port.

 

If that doesn't help, I use magnet links in qbittorrent and they seem to always work.  So, you might try qbittorrent.