bittorrent, azureus, ports and routers

[Ian Malone]

On 16/10/06, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm presently downloading a torrent with the bittorrent-gui, which seems
> to be progressing fine.  However, I've previously run into problems with
> azureus.
>
> Azureus is a bittorrent client.  What's happening that bittorrent, itself,
> works fine, yet azureus doesn't work due to blocked ports?  What is a port?
>
> Apparently bittorrent works regardless of blocked ports.  What is it about
> azureus that's different?
>

Azureus works fine here, though I've found it to be
problematic unless you use Sun's Java. (That said
I haven't tried gcj in a while).

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imalone