On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:16 am, Hyrum Wright wrote: > Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > While the web page doesn't show it, the torrent is ready. Now jump on > > so I can get faster downloads ;) > > > > http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/tettnang-binary-i386-iso.torrent > > Sure is a good thing OIT has blocked the BT ports. Has anybody figured > out what action we can take as a community, or as individuals, to > convince them to unblock these ports? > > -Hyrum
I've already had a chat with them, and amazingly got someone who knew what they were talking about in less than two weeks. Before on other port blocking issues I've asked about, I've had to wait months before ever getting a responce. I'd like to thank OIT for increasing their responce time. Anyway, below is the email I got: Ticket Information ------------------ Request Number: 526195 - wired network access Request Summary: E: Download with Bittorrent Closing Comments: Jacob, I am very familiar with the BitTorrent filesharing protocol. We do not block it because of the nature of the files being shared or because we oppose file-sharing. It is blocked because of its impact on the network resources. There is a limited amount of bandwidth available to the University and BitTorrents and other types of filesharing are constantly threatening the integrity of the network by overloading its capacity. We therefore use packet shaping to limit certain types of traffic and allow others. I wish that there was the ability to identify legitimate use of filesharing so that you and others like you could use BitTorrent for legitimate purposes but there is no way for us to distinguish between legitimate use and illegal or less important torrent traffic. We therefore limit all torrent and other file-sharing traffic. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you, but we openly acknowledge and support our decision to limit file-sharing on the network. If you have any questions or concerns about this, feel free to contact me. Thank you, Roger Timmerman Product Manager - Network Access Office of Information Technology Brigham Young University -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
