UDP blocked

[destrekor]

i'll be headin to Ohio State in the fall and am wonderin', what P2P clients will work when UDP is blocked at the user level? why i am curious, is because I get a lot of legal downloads using a bittorrent client, but I am pretty sure its all UDP. i believe newsgroups are UDP too.... is there anything past good ol' HTTP for downloads when UDP don't work?
its OSU policy to not run servers in the dorms and thus they block UDP. they dont servers eatin up the bandwidth (Internet2 school with crazy fast links to the dorms).

 

[Nothinman]

BitTorrent uses TCP. Newsgroups use NNTP which is also TCP.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
BitTorrent uses TCP. Newsgroups use NNTP which is also TCP.

well i know the data transfer itself uses TCP in bittorrent, BUT... doesn't the distributed tracker method use UDP? without that, wouldn't transfer kind of come to a crawl because of the lack of peer finding/connections.

alright, well at least newsgroups would work then.

 

[Nothinman]

well i know the data transfer itself uses TCP in bittorrent, BUT... doesn't the distributed tracker method use UDP? without that, wouldn't transfer kind of come to a crawl because of the lack of peer finding/connections.

I don't know about the distributed tracker, but I think the normal tracker stuff is just HTTP.