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Is Bittorrent blocked at work?

CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
Bittorrent was designed from the ground up as a high-speed download plug-in that utilizes the bandwidth of all other clients downloading from the same source. Downloads FLY using it. Many legitimate sites now distribute large files using it. I was expecting it to become accepted as a major way to push legitimate content from major sites, but it looks like they've jumped the gun and gone ahead and blocked it at my workplace just because the early adopters are using it to download pr0n and warez (As usual with such a technology).

This sucks. Anyone have their own torrent I can test from here? I tried a few from Slashdot and they don't work...

How do you block Bittorrent? Could the client be updated to allow ports to be specified in the torrent file without a default port so that isn't possible without a packet analyzer? Does it already support this?
 
What's the matter CZroe, you can't steal software fast enough at home ?

edit- above written with some anger over unrelated matter..not really justified, my apologies.
 
The default client supports forcing specific ports, but it has to be passed as an argument when the client is loaded. That said however, it's still a crapshoot, since most trackers use a specific port, which if blocked, means you're SOL. Otherwise, it's still iffy, since the port argument changes the ports that people connect to you with, not the other way around, so you won't be running at full effeciency.
 
It's easily possible that it's blocked at work, particularly if your IT department has adopted a policy of blocking outbound traffic unless it's on port 80, 21, etc. If you have a legitimate need for BitTorrent (possible!), check with your IT department to see if they'll open the port in the firewall for you.
 
The IT department here (Georgia, USA) only controls the T3 connecting them to the IT department in Ohio who has the real Internet connection. It has worked in the past. 🙁
 
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