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OJK
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can anyone help me with bittorrent on a network admined by someone else?
#5525780 - 04/17/06 04:47 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Hey,
I've just moved back to University, and so am forced to use my University's network to connect to the internet (it's actually a privately run network for my accomodation, but you get the idea.)
I'm wondering if it's possible to use bittorrent on my network. It's port blocked and file-type filtered.
Obviously, although downloading .torrent files is blocked, it's trivially easy to work around this using a proxy.
However, the network also restricts access to almost all ports on remote servers. 80 and 443 are allowed of course, and 6667 is open for IRC. Nothing useful p2p wise seems to be allowed at all though. Added to that, I have no idea what ports on this actual network are open - port scans like Steve Gibson's Shields Up! report every port as being stealthed.
So basically, I can download .torrent files using a proxy and tracker communications work just fine, but actually peering with anyone is impossible. Things like protocol encryption don't help, because I can't connect to remote hosts on the ports the run bittorrent on.
Does anyone have any ideas about getting bittorrent running? I'd be really grateful. Even if you think it's impossible, I'd appreciate your input saying so.
Thanks a lot
Edited by Odiumjunkie (04/17/06 05:05 PM)
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automan
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Re: can anyone help me with bittorrent on a network admined by someon else? [Re: OJK]
#5525838 - 04/17/06 04:58 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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to you have a computer at your house or have access to a server or a good friends computer? you could remotely download the file and tunnel it to where ever you are. like:
ssh into a remote computer you have access to; wget http://whatever.torrent download to that remote computer using bittorrent; ssh into that computer once it has been downloaded and tunnel it to where ever you are.
that would be my first guess at how to get what you want. you could set up the remote computer to do all it's downloading while you sleep.
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OJK
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Re: can anyone help me with bittorrent on a network admined by someon else? [Re: automan]
#5525874 - 04/17/06 05:10 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Thanks for the input, but I think that if I got into a situation where I was going to have to tunnel everything, I'd rather just download it at a totally separate location and transport it on like a cdrw or something. I have access to a server that some of my friends use, but it's kinda too pricey for me (I have very, very little money). I don't have any friends that run their own domestic servers, and I wouldn't really be comfortable using my friends bandwidth without paying for it (which I can't afford to do).
Thanks anyway
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