On Friday 28 October 2005 06:39, Andy Green wrote: >> And I've installed the rpm "BitTorrent-4.0.1-1.noarch.rpm" but there >> doesn't seem to be >> much in the way of documentation on howto start the tracker, or howto >> start a download. >> In fact, everything that I've been able to make run seems to be server >> related, even the >> btdownloadgui.py window has no place to enter a url as the starting >> src. >> >> So I'm not much farther ahead than I was 2 hours ago. Actually, before I went to bed, I'd nuked that version of bt and installed the new trackerless version. 4.1.6-1 from the rpm. Then this morning I fired up the iptables rules and using the "/usr/bin/bittorrent-console ./FC4.1-etc.torrent" command, I was pleasantly surprised by a non error return, and shortly the download started. This is a first for me. No gui though, all outputs are to the console I started it in. Thank you very much for the url that not only made it work, it made it work straight to a machine inside my firewall. Now, that firewall has always been tight enough that I've never felt the need to run anything like iptables or portsentry on this box, I've had 3 attacks get far enough into the system to be logged on the firewall box as they were being dropped in 3 years, with the last one being over a year ago. One real attack, and 2 passes at an attack by an infected verizon dns server I'm supposed to be using. I sent vz a nastygram each time, & my dns went down the next day for a few hours as they re-imaged the boxes. How insecure does this leave me now? >How about > >btdownloadgui.py fileyoudownloaded.torrent > >? You don't need to start a tracker. If you use a NAT firewall >external to your Fedora box, it'll help to portforward the 6881:6889 tcp >range to your Fedora box. > >-Andy -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
