On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 17:42, Justin Findlay wrote: > I have lookerd over the bittorrent homepage a few times to try to figure > out what I am doing wrong, yet I have found nothing resembling a solution. > What I want to know is how to download files using bittorrent. There is > no "howto download a bittorrent", so I figured that this means you just > download the .torrent file itself and this will download your bittorrented > file, but this doesn't seem to work: after downloading the .torrent file, > nothing happens. Perhaps this has something to do with the firewall on my > machine, but I am unwilling to do anything to the firewall configuration, > like cutting a hole in it, without knowing how it should be done. > Learning the Linux iptables seems expensive in both time and knowledge, > both of which I don't have a lot of. Is there any thing I can do to make > it work? Is there an easy way to modify the firewall to allow for > bittorrent use?
BT listens on 6881-6889/tcp so you could open those ports. I don't know iptables myself, so I can't help with the specifics. All you should need to do is open the .torrent file with BT and it will ask you where to save the file. You also need to understand that BT works great when lots of people are downloading the same thing at the same time but can really suck when no one is using it. It's possible this is the case with your download. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
