{"id":35,"date":"2004-04-03T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2004-04-03T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T15:22:00","slug":"bittorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitconjurer.org\/BitTorrent\/\">BitTorrent<\/a> is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol.  It depends upon the clients to distribute the files, so there&#8217;s no server bottleneck.  I&#8217;ve used the original in years past, but for kicks tried <a href=\"http:\/\/azureus.sourceforge.net\/\">Azureus<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\">Java<\/a> implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of client, BitTorrent by default listens on a port in the range 6881 to 6889.  These are tried in order and 6881 will be used unless it can&#8217;t bind to it.  Of course, my default firewall setup was blocking it.  To fix that, I defined the BitTorrent ports in <code>\/etc\/services<\/code>:<code><br \/>\n<br \/>bittorrent_min\t6881\/tcp<br \/>\n<br \/>bittorrent_max\t6889\/tcp<\/code><br \/>\n<br \/>and added this rule to the firewall:<br \/>\n<br \/><code>$IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $OUTSIDE -d 0\/0 -p tcp --dport bittorrent_min:bittorrent_max -j ACCEPT<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol. It depends upon the clients to distribute the files, so there&#8217;s no server bottleneck. I&#8217;ve used the original in years past, but for kicks tried Azureus, a Java implementation. Regardless of client, BitTorrent by default listens on a port in the range 6881 to 6889. These are tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}