Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled
From: RM
Date: 23/02/2010, 7:26 pm
To: Jeff and Jane Scott
CC: 'Powderworks' <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

The bad news could be that it requires you to get a degree in IT so that you can NAT your router ... :)
I had to set a static port forward from my ADSL router over a range of 1000 ports so that when my ISP blocks a single port for suspect activity, I can switch BitTorrent to a new port in that range.

Find out the port your client is trying to use (I use BitTorrent so uTorrent will be different as to which menu item to traverse).   Then plug that into:  http://www.utorrent.com:16000/testport?port=XXXXX  (replace XXXXX with your port number).

And also look at http://portforward.com/  but don't get sucked into the "buy pfconfig" routine (unless you want to), there is a manual configuration help page for every scenario imaginable ...

... or get an IT degree ... then you can also do it on linux for a pointlessly gratuitous mental surge ...

RM


On 23/02/2010 6:28 PM, Jeff and Jane Scott wrote:

This isn't working for me.
 
It loaded into uTorrent OK and is showing as downloading, but nine hours later has not yet connected to any peers so nothing has downloaded.
 
Any ideas, anyone?
 
 
jeff...

From: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au [mailto:powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 6:21 AM
To: Powderworks; The Oilman
Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled

There is such a thing as a trackerless torrent - using Distributed Hash Tables, Peer Exchange (PEX) and Magnet Links, you can run a torrent without uploading anything to a tracker.

This will work with basically all the major torrent clients (uTorrent, rTorrent, Transmission, kTorrent, BitComet and Deluge all work) with the possible exception of Vuze/Azurius, who have a slightly different implementation - I think they were working on adding compatibility, but I'm not sure. (easy solution: Just use uTorrent, it's better and a tiny download anyhow)

I've converted the torrent to a trackerless version - just click this link and it'll be picked up if you have a compatible torrent client.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5Y3ZO4CBBUNA5CDGSJDJKIAF37O37WW3

- Chris


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:52 AM, The Oilman <TheOilman@new.rr.com> wrote:
 



Rob, this is a good question. If a torrent file was to be posted somewhere, like the mp3s were, could we connect to it and run it with all out clients doing the torrent things or is a central system required to control the interaction??
 
This way we could just post a torrent link somewhere for just 'workers and the rest of us can start out torrent clients and share it.
 
Todd
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: RM
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled

 

Thanks Fabien, I can't see any problem with that ... it's hosted privately, and it's just advertised inside Powderworks.  That looks like "inside PW" to me.
The Good Old Boys will let us know if it's otherwise, but I can't see it being so.

(Versus FTP) Can't torrents (both the media file and the .torrent file) be hosted privately as well without a problem?  I see torrents as the apex technology for altruistic dispersal of large files, since the root idea with torrents is about spreading the bandwidth load so that the original distributor of the files doesn't pay a heavy toll in upload costs.  I don't see any philosophical problem with "torrents" as a transport mode ... however, even though Dime is very well behaved as a torrent community and host, it is not "private", being public and searchable.

Rob M


On 22/02/2010 11:40 PM, fabien barret wrote:


Salut !

I put the MP3s here :




So anyone on the list can take it and it's private. If there is a problem with that i will delete it. It's just for fans !


Fab





--- On Mon, 22/2/10, Chris <seeker42@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Chris <seeker42@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [powderworks] The Break torrent pulled
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Received: Monday, 22 February, 2010, 7:15 AM

 

I'm in the process of sorting out FTP distribution with Oilman. This way we can keep things private, as the Office request.

- Chris

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:24 PM, oils_seeker <seeker42@gmail. com> wrote:
 

Hi,

In line with the request from The Office, I've sent a deletion request for my torrent. It'll go down sometime in the next few hours.

Since the MP3 links are confined to PW members, I'll leave those up for now. Please keep them to yourself.

- Chris