On Mon, December 15, 2008 14:35, Mitar wrote: > OK, so the problem is that the tracker has recorded IP of an exit node > as a Bittorrent peer and it is giving that to other Bittorrent peer > which then want to connect to it and download from it? yes.
> But why port 80? Because that is what the original user has been using > and he/she sends this port number to the tracker? yes. On why the user chooses that specific port... meh... just let your imagination go wild: there will be plenty of reasons, from the poor man traffic disguise to human stupidity. I've seen computer science engineers configuring a firewall on their own laptops and opening port 80 in input while saying "because I should be able to surf the web" :D ciao -- Marco Bonetti BT3 EeePC enhancing module: http://sid77.slackware.it/bt3/ Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://workaround.ch/ Linux-live for powerpc: http://workaround.ch/pub/rsync/mb/linux-live/ My webstuff: http://sidbox.homelinux.org/ My GnuPG key id: 0x86A91047