Anyone Who Knows A Lot About Networking/proxies

weggyweggy Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 16998Members
edited March 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Please help me out!</div> Alright... my university, being dumb, has blocked port 6969 as well as 6881-6889. If anyone is not familiar with this, these are the ports that bittorrent uses. The official statement from IT is that these ports "Used too much bandwidth, so we blocked them"

Well, according to the contract we signed, theyre not allowed to completely block specific ports, so I emailed them. Im still waiting to hear back, but I am seriously considering talking to a lawyer if they dont comply.

Regardless, in the mean time, I would like another way to connect to bittorrent. Ive heard that TCP proxies will allow me to do this. Unfortunantly, ive never used anything like this before, so im a bit overwhelmed.

Can anyone please tell me A) If this is possible and B) How I can do it. I would really, really appreciate it. Thanks.
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  • duvelduvel Join Date: 2004-02-09 Member: 26318Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    yeah university's don't like big bandwith usage <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    there is no way around it, that is how the bittorrent system works and your university will block other ports aswell in later time...
    if you're not sharing illegal stuff like music then i don't see a problem why they block you, keep hammering them <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • weggyweggy Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 16998Members
    Well, screw em. Im paying for this bandwidth godamnit, and im going to use it.

    Ive read the contract, and it seems to say pretty clearly they cant do that. Anywho, im going to take a trip over to IT tomorrow and raise some hell.

    Thanks.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    you're lucky you even have a contract. Most universities have nothing in writing to the students and generally have a policy of "**** you" towards all students.

    My university banned every port except 80. Every port. E-mail? Banned. FTP? Banned. Secure HTTP? Banned. IRC? Banned.

    Perhaps they want to isolate the campus so word can't get out about how crappy they are. I bet a big fence and an armed guard at the gates comes next...
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  • UnCriticalUnCritical Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 73Members, Constellation
    According to the <a href='http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/FAQ.html' target='_blank'>bittorrent FAQ</a> the port range is configurable.
    I dont know how its done (and perhaps isn't possible without re-writing some of the code) but you might want to look into it.
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  • weggyweggy Join Date: 2003-06-04 Member: 16998Members
    As I understand it, ports 6881 - 6889 can be easilly changed via a command line... and I have. Those are the ports it sends data on.

    But port 6969 cant be changed. Thats the tracker where bittorrent goes out and finds people to download from. So if thats blocked, it cant find anyone, so no download.
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    Not sure if it will help but you can try <a href='http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/fpipe.htm' target='_blank'>this</a>.
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-weggy+Mar 24 2004, 01:10 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (weggy @ Mar 24 2004, 01:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Ive read the contract, and it seems to say pretty clearly they cant do that. Anywho, im going to take a trip over to IT tomorrow and raise some hell.

    Thanks. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    best of luck
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