Kasimir Gabert
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:34:44 -0700
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Teddy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 20:18 +0200, Noiano wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> as you may know The Pirate Bay is being blocked in Italy for legal >> issues. It's just a matter of time before all connection to all the TPB >> servers will be blocked. Many people are suggesting to use tor+vidalia >> in order to bypass the block. It's a good suggestion but, IMHO, people >> care very little about just surfing thepiratebay.org. They want to >> access the tracker and download ;-) . >> Since I do not know the torrent protocol I wander: is it possible to use >> tor as a "proxy" to access the tracker and get the data connections not >> passing through tor? This would be possible if the request a client >> makes to a tracker contains the non-tor ip of the client, I guess. >> >> Any idea is welcome. >> >> Noiano (from italy :-P ) >> >> > IIRC, a few months ago someone set up a tracker as a hidden service, > specifically for this kind of thing. I didn't test it myself, but some > people reported success. >
Hello, I think what is being talked about is something far simpler: accessing TPB through Tor, but have the P2P connections not being blocked. This is actually the recommended way of using Tor with P2P, and is easily possible in most clients. I only know about deluge, seeing that is what I use on my Ubuntu box, and all I had to do was check "Tracker Proxy" in the settings, and type in my Tor SOCKS proxy. Let me know if this helps, and good luck! Kasimir -- Kasimir Gabert