[ubuntu-uk] BitTorrent: “Problem connecting to tracker” (Re: Downloading Ubuntu 7.10 CD image)

[Greg K Nicholson]

When trying to download the CD image from 
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/simple/gutsy/desktop/ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 
the BitTorrent client immediately complains: “Problem connecting to 
tracker” and “urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')”.

Is this simply because the load on the server is too high? (It worked 
fine at about 03:00 BST this morning, which I think was before the 
official release.)