Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No torrent upload
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:23
Message-Id: 200706121627.42482.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No torrent upload by Albert Hopkins
1 Am Dienstag 12 Juni 2007 16:04 schrieb Albert Hopkins:
2 > On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 15:49 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
3 > > I have to use port 21 because my provider slows everything down as
4 > > soon as he
5 > > recognizes traffic on any port except those typically in use.
6 >
7 > AFAIK the bitrorrent protocol is for ports starting at 6882. It's
8 > likely that clients won't connect to your port (21) esp. since it is a
9 > lower port # reserved for FTP.
10 >
11 > But if you say it works on other setups then it should work also with
12 > Gentoo. Have you tried running netstat?
13
14 netstat
15 Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
16 Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
17 tcp 0 1 HOMER_GENTOO64.PHHE:ftp 212-87-13-68.sds.:40202 FIN_WAIT1
18
19 Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
20 Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
21 unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 975
22 @/org/kernel/udev/udevd
23 [...]
24 nothing interesting except the first line.
25
26
27
28 > Have you ensured rtorrent is
29 > listning on TCP 21 (in Linux you usually have to be running as root to
30 > do this)
31
32 Yes. It runs as root (not that I would like it, maybe I should chroot it...)
33 and port 21 is rtorrent's only chance to download. So, it works.
34
35 > Are you running something on your end that may be blocking
36 > incoming TCP/21?
37
38 You mean stuff like iptables? No.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] No torrent upload Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] No torrent upload Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>