Re: The pirate bay, torrent and TOR

[Rochester TOR Admin]

Not all Bittorrent clients support the "use proxy for tracker".   Does
anyone want to explain how to do this client independant?

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Kasimir Gabert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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
>