Unofficial FC4.1 i386 isos

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Sep 19 11:48:32 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 September 2005 22:10, Craig White wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:29 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>Darn.  Bittorrent can't get thru my firewall. ftp-able iso's sure
> >>>would be nice.
> >>
> >>----
> >>Why don't you fix your firewall - IIRC, you control your own
> > 
> > firewalling
> > 
> >>Craig
> > 
> > 
> > There are actually several places I'd have to take the tinsnips to in
> > order to cut a bittorrent sized hole into here. 
> >  
> > Theres the router in addition to iptables to deal with.
> > 
> > I've actually  made several passes at it, but the relative lack of
> > error reporting cripples me in that its a failure, but totally silent
> > when I try to start a tracker.
> 
> You don't need to start a tracker to use a bittorrent client. I've 
> downloaded Fedora ISOs without problems at work, where I am sat behind a 
> Cisco PIX firewall that has *no* incoming ports open (though I can make 
> whatever outbound connections I like, which work as the firewall allows 
> the return data back in).
----
but we are discussing Gene's firewall setup.

Why don't you explain you firewall setup for Paul and perhaps he can
guide you.

;-)

Craig


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