Blocking .torrents doesn't resolve people downloading magnet links.
You would need to block all *.torrent & .txt (you can download a
torrent as a .txt from some sites). It would be easier to filter your
users at the gateway... i.e If all you want is users to have Internet
access, block all ports except ${proxy_port} and force your users
through the proxy. This would need to be supplemented with locking
down the desktops too.On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Amos Jeffries <squ...@treenet.co.nz> wrote: > On 14/07/2012 11:54 a.m., Ali Esf wrote: >> >> >> hi list >> is there any way to block BitTorrent and any other torrent connection >> throught squid? > > > When a user begins a torrent download they fetch a file with extension type > ".torrent". Once they have those details the rest of the torrent is not > trackable through Squid, which is an HTTP proxy not a Torrent proxy. > > The complaint has not supplied the .torrent filename being used to spread > the content. It is being left up to you to figure out what they are talking > about and how that relates to any traffic you have. > > The one URL they do provide (http://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce) is the > home page for a torrent tracker site, unrelated to the content itself. > > Amos > -- Regards, Jason Leschnik. [m] 0432 35 4224 [w@] jason dot leschnik <at> ansto dot gov dot au [U@] jml...@uow.edu.au
