Eclipse blocking torrents?

Feek · 26-09-2007, 19:15

For the last couple of days I've had big problems connecting to trackers, for many hours in the evening I just don't get a connection. It's fine the next day and then gone again in the evening.

A google produced this from the 24th September:

Quote:

Has your BitTorrent stopped working today? Try this....

Get firefox. Use the User Agent Switcher extension:
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

Set it up in Tools->User Agent Switcher->Options->Options, add a
user-agent, anything in the first line, "uTorrent/1610" (without quotes)
in the second line. Alternatively, try "Asureus" - that doesn't work for
me either.

Try to browse any web page.

Does it work for you? It doesn't for me. Change it back to any other
useragent, and everything works again.

Eclipse doesn't even be polite in sending back an RST, they just seem to
silently drop the packets.

I guess what that's doing is making Firefox identify itself as uTorrent (which is the application I use) and when I do what it says, I can't connect to any web site.

So that says to me that Eclipse are now blocking torrent applications at certain times of the day.

It's not so bad with existing and ongoing downloads as uTorrent works without being able to connect to the tracker via DHT but one site I use doesn't support that so everything just stops.

I'm annoyed.

Burble · 26-09-2007, 19:20

Bugger, there ain't going to be much you can do about that. Do you have a box somewhere you can SSH tunnel through and connect to the tracker through?

Feek · 26-09-2007, 19:24

You're talking foreign to me...

Burble · 26-09-2007, 19:31

Ah, ignore me then. What I was wondering was if you had a server somewhere that you could create an SSH tunnel (Secure SHell) to and then send your torrent tracker stuff down that tunnel. Eclipse wouldn't be able to see what's in the tunnel.

Feek · 26-09-2007, 19:37

Well I've got a Windows server in the house, would that do? I've never played with SSH before although I've heard the term.

Burble · 26-09-2007, 19:40

Christ, I suck at explaining things today. I meant to say that it needs to be with an ISP other than Eclipse since the connections to the tracker would be made from that server.

Feek · 26-09-2007, 19:42

That's what I was wondering. No. Arse.

Feek · 26-09-2007, 19:54

So I'd need to find someone who isn't with Eclipse who can run an SSH tunnel for my tracker stuff? I'm guessing that my tracker traffic would then leave me all wrapped up in an SSH tunnel, diddle through the internet to them and go out from there to the actual tracker? All other traffic would just go out as normal.

Is that right?

/edit - Or change ISP

Burble · 26-09-2007, 19:59

Spot on. Changing ISPs may be the easiest solution but from what I remember Eclipse give you nice stuff like a /29, custom PTR records and so on and I don't think there are many other ISPs that do that.

Mark · 26-09-2007, 20:00

Yup - spot on.

I have SSH tunnelling configured at home (in fact I'm posting through it right now), but given I'm on a business connection and I need it for work I'm not sure I can risk it if the content is in any way questionable - a cease and desist letter from the RIAA or whoever probably wouldn't go down too well.

26-09-2007, 19:24	#3
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	You're talking foreign to me... __________________

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Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Well I've got a Windows server in the house, would that do? I've never played with SSH before although I've heard the term. __________________

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Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	That's what I was wondering. No. Arse. __________________

26-09-2007, 19:54	#8
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	So I'd need to find someone who isn't with Eclipse who can run an SSH tunnel for my tracker stuff? I'm guessing that my tracker traffic would then leave me all wrapped up in an SSH tunnel, diddle through the internet to them and go out from there to the actual tracker? All other traffic would just go out as normal. Is that right? /edit - Or change ISP __________________ Last edited by Feek; 26-09-2007 at 19:56.

26-09-2007, 19:20	#2
Burble Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,826	Bugger, there ain't going to be much you can do about that. Do you have a box somewhere you can SSH tunnel through and connect to the tracker through?

26-09-2007, 19:31	#4
Burble Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,826	Ah, ignore me then. What I was wondering was if you had a server somewhere that you could create an SSH tunnel (Secure SHell) to and then send your torrent tracker stuff down that tunnel. Eclipse wouldn't be able to see what's in the tunnel.

26-09-2007, 19:40	#6
Burble Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,826	Christ, I suck at explaining things today. I meant to say that it needs to be with an ISP other than Eclipse since the connections to the tracker would be made from that server.

26-09-2007, 19:59	#9
Burble Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7,826	Spot on. Changing ISPs may be the easiest solution but from what I remember Eclipse give you nice stuff like a /29, custom PTR records and so on and I don't think there are many other ISPs that do that.

26-09-2007, 20:00	#10
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Yup - spot on. I have SSH tunnelling configured at home (in fact I'm posting through it right now), but given I'm on a business connection and I need it for work I'm not sure I can risk it if the content is in any way questionable - a cease and desist letter from the RIAA or whoever probably wouldn't go down too well.