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PaV
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 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject: Please help me make bittorrent working |
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I have tried standard bittorrent as well as the shadow client and both show error while connecting to tracker. i dont have a firewall, its an almost clean gentoo install (kernel 2.4.20) with fluxbox. my isp doesnt block torrent ports, because it works well from windows on my dual boot machine.
i wonder what may be the problem? maybe something blocks my ports in gentoo ? how do i check if i can connect to tracker and the ports are open ?
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GentooNub
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I have tried standard bittorrent as well as the shadow client and both show error while connecting to tracker. i dont have a firewall, its an almost clean gentoo install (kernel 2.4.20) with fluxbox. my isp doesnt block torrent ports, because it works well from windows on my dual boot machine.
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i wonder what may be the problem? maybe something blocks my ports in gentoo ? how do i check if i can connect to tracker and the ports are open ?
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If you don't have a firewall.. or router? Then nothing is blocking ports. If you can't connect to a tracker most likely it's just not working. Try this torrent. If it doesn't work then maybe it is something blocking your ports, like your isp but they're lying to you. That is, if you don't have a router or a firewall running. Because as of this post that link is confirmed to work on my gentoo boxen.
EDIT: Fixed, sorry about that.
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Cluster
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Do "netstat -ta" to show which ports are occupied by daemons, and look for port 6881 with the status LISTEN. If you don't see it, then your client is not accepting connections for upload.
Then, as root do "iptables -L" (only as root) to display your firewall rules. It should look like:
| Quote: | Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination |
If it doesn't, then you probably have rules that are blocking traffic. |
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Cluster
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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To help out GentooNub, a legal and useful torrent may be found at http://pmw.myip.org/oss/ -- it is a CD image of open-source software for Windows, useful for migrating your buddies to open source.
(I am the maintainer, so I am biased.) |
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GentooNub
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Cluster wrote: | To help out GentooNub, a legal and useful torrent may be found at http://pmw.myip.org/oss/ -- it is a CD image of open-source software for Windows, useful for migrating your buddies to open source.
(I am the maintainer, so I am biased.) |
Thanx Cluster. I found one also and re-edited my link. Appreciate the help though. Now he has 2 legal torrents to try.  |
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PaV
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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#netstat -ta
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:6881 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 ALIENWARE:33044 213.25.190.210:34254 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 ALIENWARE:33043 mmog.one.pl:53248 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 ALIENWARE:32770 host-92.gadugadu.p:8074 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 ALIENWARE:32771 baym-cs154.msgr.ho:1863 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 20 ALIENWARE:32774 irc.efnet.pl:ircd ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 146-moc-4.acn.waw:33051 prosie3.acn.pl:webcache TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 146-moc-4.acn.waw:33050 prosie3.acn.pl:webcache ESTABLISHED
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iptables says "command not found", emerging iptables ends with an error in compilation.
ive tried both torrents you provided, still the same: "problem connecting to tracker"
once again, i have a public ip, im not behind a firewal nor router. bittorrent
works absolutely fine in windows, it just doesnt work in gentoo.
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If it doesn't, then you probably have rules that are blocking traffic.
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how do i check that?
thanks for suggestions, hope for more  |
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PaV
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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markkuk
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| What's the exact error you are getting? How are you starting the download? Today I was trying to get the Fedora Core 2 test 1 ISOs with bittorrent and using the URL to the .torrent file ( btdownloadcurses.py --url http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/FC2-test1-binary-i386.torrent) caused error message "Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 400: Not Authorized", but when I copied the .torrent to my machine first and used "btdownloadcurses.py FC2-test1-binary-i386.torrent" it started working without errors. |
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PaV
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| i just get: ERROR - Problem connecting to tracker |
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