To All Non Connectable Users

SysOp · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject: To All Non Connectable Users

Assalam-Alaykum,

The tracker self-determined if you are firewalled or NATed and cannot accept incoming connections.

This means that other peers in the swarm will be unable to connect to you, only you to them. Even worse, if two peers are both in this state they will not be able to connect at all. This has obviously a detrimental effect on the overall speed.

The way to solve the problem involves opening the ports used for incoming connections (the same range you defined in your client) on the firewall and/or configuring your NAT server to use a basic form of NAT for that range instead of NAPT (the actual process differs widely between different router models. Check your router documentation and/or support forum. You will also find lots of information on the subject at PortForward).

Can I bypass my ISP's proxy?

If your ISP only allows HTTP traffic through port 80 or blocks the usual proxy ports then you would need to use somethinglike http://www.socks.permeo.com/ and that is outside the scope of this FAQ.

Otherwise you may try the following:

* Choose any public non-anonymous proxy that does not use port 80 (e.g. from http://samair.ru/proxy/, http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/or http://www.proxy4free.com/index.html list).
* Configure your computer to use that proxy. For Windows XP, do Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, Connections, LAN Settings, Use a Proxy server, Advanced and type in the IP and port of your chosen proxy. Or from Internet Explorer use Tools, Internet Options, ...
* (Facultative) Visit http://www.proxyjudge.com/. If you see an HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR in the list followed by your IP then everything should be ok, otherwise choose another proxy and try again.
* Visit this site. Hopefully the tracker will now pickup your real IP (check your profile to make sure).

Notice that now you will be doing all your browsing through a public proxy, which are typically quite slow.Communications between peers do not use port 80 so their speed will not be affected by this, and should be better than whenyou were ""unconnectable"".

Mehdi · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:21 am Post subject:

Assalamu Alaykoum,
i dont know why im beeing "not connectable", im using Azureus/uTorrent without DHT or NAT problems, and i never had problems with ALT-Tracker.. im using a port in range of 50000->60000, and i have a Dynamic-IP.
thank u for your help.

SysOp · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject:

At this time, I disabled connectability view, due to security reasons, so it does not matter what the status says. All user will report not connectable at this time, until this the security issues get solved. Thanks for your concern.

SysOp

Psychowabbit · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:57 am Post subject:

Is the security issue back again ? Question

Mehdi · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:55 am Post subject:

The Tracker reports now the correct cconnectability status.

you can also test your port here : http://www.islam.to/porttest.php

see also :

What is NAT , what is Port Forwarding ??
Fix NAT Problem
Azureus Wiki - Nat Problem
http://portforward.com/
Troubleshooting - Wiki