[CentOS] Can't connect to torrent tracker

[William L. Maltby]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:46 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > I'm running a port scan right now. So far, http and rsync are the only
> > porst found open. The torrent file show port 6969 - but I don't know for
> > sure if that represents the source port or a port I'm supposed to use
> > because I don't have the layout of the torrent file. But I do see this
> > in the torrent file:
> >
> >     d8:announce39:http://torrent.centos.org:6969/announce13: ...
> >   
> 
> your torrent client can use any port it wants to, it has to be able to 
> accept connections on that port, so whatever port you configure it for, 
> you enable in your firewall, (or port forward if you have a consumer 
> internet sharing appliance router)

I've got IPCop as my firewall/router, all default configs, no DMZ, just
internet side and private side.

I've not found a need to modify its settings in the past.

I use rtorrent and see it using ports 6490 (IIRC) and I get messages
saying I can't connect to the tracker. I don't even know if this is
important yet, but I'm assuming it provides some benefit to myself
and/or others since it seems to try to connect to it by default.

> 
> 
> the port in the torrent file is the tracker port, this is seperate.

Thanks for the start of education. If perused some of the docs at the
torrent site, but know very little as yet.

> <snip sig stuff>

Thanks again,
-- 
Bill