[wplug] BitTorrent

[Kevin Squire]

I also have debian, and had a similar situation when I first used the
btdownloadgui.  The fix for me was to open ports 6881-6889 on my
firewall. (I am using IPCop as my firewall, if that helps any).  I
normally leave them closed, till I see the gui sitting stagnant, then as
soon as I open the ports, things begin to work.  Now, I am not sure if
that will help you any, since you seem to want to use a different port,
but that was what worked for me.

BTW, if you launch  'btdownloadgui.bittorrent' without any arguement,
then a window lauches with various options (similar to using -h on
others). Maybe that will help.

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 22:22:37 -0400 (EDT)
Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:

> Apparently, all the hip youngsters these days are using BitTorrent to 
> distribute files.  However, I can't get it to work.  I never
understood 
> MIME types, but apparently the [Debian] bittorrent package uses some
sort 
> of mime-fu to get it to 'just work'.  Except it doesnt: the client 
> starts, and then it sits stagnantly on my desktop.
> 
> I suspect a firewall issue.  Because I am using the client on a
machine 
> behind a NAT-masquerade firewall, I need to specify the port in the 
> firewall that the client should use (it is not the standard BitTorrent

> port[s]).  But the client has no configuration.  The documentation 
> supplied with the package refers me to a web address for NAT/firewall 
> documentation, but the web address is (this is BRILLIANT!) hosted by 
> a Dynamic IP which is not receiving calls right now, for some reason
(url: 
> http://knowbuddy.dyndns.org:81/torrent/btclientconfig.html#FWConfig )
> 
> I am running the client from within my email program: I receive a 
> .torrent file as an attachment and open it, and it launches
btdownloadgui. 
> btdownloadgui does have a man page but I don't know how to pass
arguments 
> to it because I don't call it directly -- the program is run based on 
> the .torrent file's MIME type.  Does that make sense?
> 
> How do I get around this?
> 
> -Brandon
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