[CentOS] Can't connect to torrent tracker

Wed Dec 19 00:26:14 UTC 2007
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:10 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > 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: ...
> >>>   
> 
> ah. lets backup.
> 
> # nmap -sT -p6969 -vv torrent.centos.org
> ...
> Interesting ports on 66.147.238.146:
> PORT     STATE  SERVICE
> 6969/tcp closed acmsoda
> 
> ...
> 
> appears the tracker is down.

OK. I can stop sweating that I screwed something up and will have to dig
much deeper into things with which I have only passing familiarity.

I ran your command and got the same results.

 nmap -sT -p6969 -vv torrent.centos.org

Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-12-18 19:19
EST
Machine 66.147.238.146 MIGHT actually be listening on probe port 80
Initiating Connect() Scan against 66.147.238.146 [1 port] at 19:19
The Connect() Scan took 0.04s to scan 1 total ports.
Host 66.147.238.146 appears to be up ... good.
Interesting ports on 66.147.238.146:
PORT     STATE  SERVICE
6969/tcp closed acmsoda

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.453 seconds

> <snip sig stuff>

Thanks again for the help. I'm gonna stash this command in my local bin
and RTFM on that. BTW, the port scan also did not show the port open.
But it sure took awhile, checking all those other ports too.

Thanks again,
-- 
Bill