Bit Torrent Applications

Does anyone recommend any particular Bit Torrent programs? I am new to Mac's, so not sure if one works better than others.
Thanks in advance,
MCB

i use Transmission (http://transmission.m0k.org/).
It's very lightweight, but is universal binary. Maybe not what you are looking for.

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Bit torrent downloads crash finder

Every time I leave a bit torrent download/upload running it crashes Finder. This happened when I was running Mac OS X 10.5, as well as after I upgraded to 10.6. This occurs with no matter what bit torrent application I use to handle the torrents. I've deleted the programs and all associated files, did a clean install of the application and get the same result. It used to happen when I had more than one torrent going at a time, but now it's occurring even with just one. My iMac is just over a year old, none of my resources are tapped (processor, memory, disk activity) when this happens, it just freezes. I just can't figure out why this is happening. Thanks.

You say it crashes Finder then you say it freezes, which is it?
Do you have a Finder window open to look at the directory that is
involved in the download?
If so, try doing it without having a Finder window open for that
directory and see if it makes a difference.
There have been a number of topics about Finder issues involving
downloading of audio/visual files - something to do with Quicklook
attempting to use a partially downloaded file.
Dave

Bit Torrent Ports

Hi,
I am a new Mac user and have recently purchased a Powerbook G4. I would like to use Bit torrent more efficiently on my Mac.
I would be greatful to anyone who can guide me on how to allow access to Bit torrent and other applications to specific TCP ports?
Your help would be highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Aditya

I would be greatful to anyone who can guide me on how
to allow access to Bit torrent and other applications
to specific TCP ports?
Are you behind a router ? If so, you must configure that device to do port forwarding on your Mac to ports 6881-6999.
To allow the bitTorrent ports through your firewall on OS X:
System Preferences -> Sharing -> firewall -> new -> other
Port Number -> 6881-6999
Port Name -> bittorrent
OK
This will allow access to the ports bittorrent uses.

Bit Torrent - won't download on specific computer

I'm suddenly having issues with bit torrents downloading on my desktop computer. I have tried multiple programs (deluge, transmission, and my daily use qbittorrent). I've also tried with a separate user account. On the same network, my laptop will work just fine (both connected wirelessly), so think its something system-related. I even tried setting a manual port and port-forwarding via the router. No matter the tracker it won't connect and just stall out. I've tried reinstalling (libktorrent libtorrent libtorrent-rasterbar transmission-qt qbittorrent), but nothing seems to affect it. What am I missing here?

It's not going to be an issue with port forwarding. Bittorrent will work even if no ports are forwarded, you'll just see less peers connected.
You say it can't even connect to the tracker? That sounds like you have a deeper networking problem not specific to Bittorrent. I would check your network configuration. Check your DNS servers, IP address (Make sure no two computers on your network have the same IP address. That creates a conflict and causes all kinds of nasty and sometimes unpredictable problems), default gateway, and any firewall/iptables configuration you may have.
Another possibility if other internet applications are working on that machine is that your problem only affects UDP (HTTP web traffic uses TCP.) A lot of Bittorrent trackers are switching from TCP to UDP. There's a quick way to test UDP connectivity. First, install nmap (pacman -S nmap) Then, as root, run
nmap -p 60,80 -sU tracker.openbittorrent.com
This is the expected result:
Starting Nmap 6.46 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-07-10 04:56 CDT
Nmap scan report for tracker.openbittorrent.com (31.172.63.253)
Host is up (0.21s latency).
Other addresses for tracker.openbittorrent.com (not scanned): 31.172.63.252
PORT STATE SERVICE
60/udp closed unknown
80/udp open|filtered http
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.74 seconds
Note the state of the ports. The tracker is running on port 80 but since open UDP ports don't send a response back, nmap can't be sure if the port is truly open or if it's being filtered by a firewall. That's why I also scanned the dummy port 60 so nmap would receive a closed response. If nmap can differentiate between open and closed ports as demonstrated here, it means you're successfully sending and receiving UDP packets. If it can't, you've got a deeper networking issue you need to solve.
Also, if you wish to test a TCP tracker, simply change the -sU to a -sS (and obviously change the ports and hostname since openbittorrent doesn't run a TCP tracker.)

Azareus - Bit Torrent

I was told this is a good bit torrent for Macs. Does anyone recommend a trustworthy web site to download this application? Also, any pitfalls I should be aware of with this program?
Thanks,
McB

Versiontracker.com is a great place for share/freeware.

Effectively blocking Bit Torrent

I am using BackTrack 5 to help monitor Bit Torrent since I have been completely ineffective in blocking it via my Cisco 5505 Firewall. I have now seen several outbound TCP connections with the connection being to my firewall's IP address. I am a rookie when it comes to using Cisco's rather clunky interface and am struggling with this. I am a software developer with very few networking skills in a company of 5! Can anyone help with the proper way to block bit torrent downloads on my Cisco asa 5505 or tell me why my BackTrack system is telling me that the firewall is connecting to the pirate bay?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

It would help if you provided a white-washed network diagram to see where the BackTrack software is installed, listening to traffic. Now if I were a betting person, I would lay good odds that the address BackTrack sees is the same NAT IP used for traffic to go to Internet and BackTrack is listening to traffic after it exits the ASA.
One of the things I have to be beneficial on many levels is implementing a software which uses netflow to track traffic, Scrutinizer for instance. You have all interfaces on the ASA monitored and create filters to look into almost anything crossing the ASA. (Not to plug Scrutinizer, just found it to be the best.)
Another benefit is to use it to see what applications, users, etc are eating traffic. I found a company which released new code to their web servers that did not compress pdf's after being generated, part of new code. As a result we saw a significant portion of the network traffic increase, almost double, and would not have found the culprit had it not been for netflow.

Bit Torrent vs P2P?

What is the difference between bit torrent and P2P? EG Acqlite and FrostWire are P2P apps, while Tomato Torrent and Transmission are bit torrent apps.
Do these apps work with iTunes?
I'm just totally ignorant about these things.
Thx!

Practically speaking, how do they differ?
OK, let's try this again. There is no "difference" between BitTorrent and P2P. It's like you're asking what the difference is between a Corvette and a car. The former is an example of the latter. BitTorrent is P2P; it's one of many P2P networks. And you access them via an appropriate P2P client, one that accesses that particular network, be it BitTorrent, Kazaa, Gnutella, Limewire, etc.
If you're asking how BitTorrent, Limewire, Kazaa et al differ, that's really not an appropriate subject for this forum which is for questions about iTunes, and would take a major article to really get into.
If they can't be used with iTunes or QT, how does one use them?
All such P2P systems are just file sharing networks; those files may be software, pictures, music, videos, text documents, or other types of files. So the network has nothing directly to do with iTunes, QuickTime or any other application, per se, though the content you download may open in such an application.
As to how you find files, that's not easy. A P2P application may have a search built in, or you may need to find a "tracker" site. Any legitimate provider of content that is distributing via any P2P network (very rare) should tell you how to download their content. The vast majority of content, particularly media (music, videos, movies) on P2P networks is pirated. Plus P2P networks are a major vector for malware writers to distribute their attacks. Note as well that by default, many P2P applications also set up a file share on your own computer, making your computer a download source to others which can impact the security and performance of your system as well as having possible implications for any data transfer limits that might be imposed by your Internet service provider. So use any P2P network application with great caution, understanding that you're doing so at your own risk.
I hope this clears things up.

Blocking Bit-Torrent and other P2P softwares

Hello Dear All
I need to block All P2P Activity (ASA 5525) from VPN Users (outside), I tried some access lists, but they didn't take any action.
could you please assist me the access lists/policy-maps that you have done before and its working.
As you see output of service-policy there are matching but there is no any packet dropped.
Output :
ASA# sh service-policy global inspect http
Global policy:
Service-policy: global_policy
    Class-map: inspection_default
      Inspect: http Drop-P2P, packet 942279, lock fail 0, drop 0, reset-drop 0, v6-fail-close 0
        protocol violations
          log, packet 123
        match request header user-agent regex _default_gator
          drop-connection log, packet 0
        match response header regex _default_x-kazaa-network count gt 0
          drop-connection log, packet 0
        class bit-torrent-tracker
          drop-connection log, packet 0
ASA# sh service-policy global inspect http
Global policy:
Service-policy: global_policy
    Class-map: inspection_default
      Inspect: http Drop-P2P, packet 980730, lock fail 0, drop 0, reset-drop 0, v6-fail-close 0
        protocol violations
          log, packet 131
        match request header user-agent regex _default_gator
          drop-connection log, packet 0
        match response header regex _default_x-kazaa-network count gt 0
          drop-connection log, packet 0
        class bit-torrent-tracker
          drop-connection log, packet 0
Thank You

Hi Ali,
Your VPN users connects through internet and get internet access from the ASA connected internet link??? There you want to block the bit torrent and P2P?? Please describe your setup....
Also provide your configurations that is related to P2P & Bit Torrent blocking
Remember one thing.
The ASA can block P2P type applications only if P2P traffic is being tunneled through HTTP. Also, ASA can drop P2P traffic if it is tunneled through HTTP. If that is already been proxied then its not poosible for asa to block such traffic.
http://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/3123/peer-to-peer-p2p-file-sharing-applications-threat-corporate-environment/103882
Regards
Karthik

Gnu Arch (CVS replacement) + ABC (Bit Torrent Client)

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Sorry, I just noticed that GnuArch is apparently in `STAGING' (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=4529)
and someone else mentioned ABC previously..
what a great way to enter the forum... damn..
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===========================
Thanks for the great distribution.
i'd like to request 2 applications
the first is GnuArch, a superset of subversion.
http://www.gnuarch.org/
Secondly, ABC (yet Another Bit-torrent Client)
http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/
it seems to be ok, however its UI is quite slow and the underlying bit torrent client (Bit Tornado) isnt compatible with some of the newer torrent trackers.
If you know of a better bit torrent client -WITH- a gui capable of queueing multiple torrents at a time then by all means add that instead.
But i just dont like having to manually restart individual torrents all the time.
Thanks again.

Pyqt is in the staging repo: http://xentac.net/~tur/repos.php
Add this repo to your pacman.conf (instructions on the page) and just install with pacman -S.
Making qtorrent package of PKGBUILD:
1. Save the code section from the forum in PKGBUILD file in some build directory (doesn't really matter but the best place is /var/abs/local/qtorrent)
2. Su to became root.
3. type makepkg (in the dir where you saved the PKGBUILD)
4. wait a few seconds :-)
5. if everything goes well (it should) type pacman -A nameofthegeneratedpackagefile.tar.gz
That's all. Complicated? I don't think so 8)

Crash in 32 bit C++ application on Linux 5.4 with Oracle Client 11.2.0.2.

Hi ,
I am getting following crash in 32 bit C++ application built on Linux platform 5.4 with Oracle client version 11.2.0.2.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
[New process 22157]
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xf7dc5c81 in raise () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xf73d4d43 in skgesigOSCrash () from /opt/oracle/11.2.0.2/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1
#3 0xf7643d61 in kpeDbgSignalHandler () from /opt/oracle/11.2.0.2/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1
#4 0xf73d5003 in skgesig_sigactionHandler () from /opt/oracle/11.2.0.2/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#7 0x00be7df0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#8 0x00be9701 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#9 0x0804b716 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffabe244) at crewxa.cc:371From the stack trace, it seems that the crash is occurring at oracle client library libclntsh.so.11.1 . When looked at Metalink, there is a note Pro*c Application Cores On 11g Client [ID 1410089.1], which says that Pro *C application consistently produces core dumps with above stack trace in Oracle client 11.2.0.2 .
Such traces are resulting from the function “sqlnst ()”. But in this case, the stack is called from the main function of our application.
Please advice.

Thanks again, Phil.
It seems to be some specific situation, since I could get to install the same version (Client 11.2.0.1 32 bits) in a Windows Vista 64 bits.
I still hope somebody has an answer.
Best regards!

Downloading MUSE failed so I uninstalled (WIN7 64 bit) but application manager doesn't recognise it

Downloading MUSE failed so I uninstalled (WIN7 64 bit) but application manager doesn't recognise it has been uninstalled so I can't re-install

What version of the Adobe Application Manager do you currently have installed? You can find the version by going to C:\Program Files(x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\core. Once there please select the PDApp.exe and right click and select properties. You will find the version number listed under the details tab.

Unmappable or stealth port when using Transmission bit torrent

I'm running transmission bit torrent on my mac right now and I'm getting really slow connections, if any at all.
I have gone through the port forwarding procedure and it didn't seem to help
Here is what happens
I open Transmission and check the advanced preferences, and it says the port is open and successfully mapped. Then, anywhere from 5 minutes onward of the program running the port goes stealth and sometimes is not mappable.
Help?

So, you've opened the ports, both TCP and UDP on your Powerbook mac firewall (you have to define an entry to do that on the sharing/firewall preference pane), you don't have 'stop UDP' checked on the sharing/firewall/advance tab, you've defined the same port range on your wireless router in the gaming or port forwarding section, again indicating 'both' instead of just TCP ... correct on those?
If yes on those steps, have you tried another program besides Transmission? Bittorent is one option at http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/ (stick with one of the early 4.1.n OS X releases, as release 5 is banned on some sites). Or Bits on Wheels at http://www.bitsonwheels.com/ is another that works on OS X.

Bit torrent app for osx 10.4.11

What is the best bit torrent app for my g4 running osx 10.4.11??? Thanks in advance.

Probably Transmission...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19378/transmission
Or Tomato...
http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/
Or...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/18286

Running a Windows 32 bit C++ application

Hello,
I have a Windows 32 bit VC++ application installed on my hard disk. I want that this application should be run when I click on a link on a web page. Can I do this using java web start. What i want to do is deploy this application on a client machine. I will then have a web server on his intranet. When he clicks on a link it will launch the client application on his hard disk. What i want to avoid is any sort of messages like " Do you want to save this file to the disk or run this program from the current location" and hence i would like to use java web start. Do you have any suggestions?

I have a Windows 32 bit VC++ application
ication installed on my hard disk. I want that this
application should be run when I click on a link on a
web page.
Can I do this using java web start.Perhaps it is technically possible (eg writing a little java wrapper that pulls the exe over and then launches it with runtime.exec("foo.exe")) but it misses the point.
Java Web Start is intended for use with applications written in Java (plus perhaps same native libs), that are executed using the standard JREs.
The other problem adressed is that nobody wants to have foreign code, that resides on some visited server, to execute without restrictions on one's client.
That's why the security stuff is in there.
Another problem is versioning, to sync server versions and the versions in the client cache.
want to do is deploy this application on a client
machine. I will then have a web server on his
intranet. When he clicks on a link it will launch the
client application on his hard disk.It is possibly easier for you to buy some other deployment tool that has been made for this purpose or to write some launcher yourself.
Let's say your launch descriptors are put in a .mld (my launch descriptor) file.
It might contain some hints on the application you want to start, or might contain even nothing and just acts as trigger for your launcher.
You register the .mld mime type with the browser to start up your launcher whenever an URL ending on an .mld extension is hit.
You launcher will then connect to the server, download the app (e.g. via secure copy 'scp') and starts it.
This could be done even with perl or python scripting.
Regards,
Marc

Bit torrent downloads

i want to start by saying that im new to the p2p technology so if my question is dumb i apologize with advance. I just downloaded a movie using bit torrent and i noticed that i came in a different format that i havent seen before (xvid.001...). There are 51 files so i was just wondering if someone could tell how to compress the file so i can watch the movie. i already tried to play them with divx player and i didnt work. I also tried to burn them with toaster as divx disc, and ii didnt work as well
Thank.

There are 51 files so i was just wondering if someone could tell how to compress the file
If a file is split into 50 pieces, that's most likely split with RAR. One of the oldest UnRAR programs for Macs is 'unRarX.' It's reliable and in Universal Binary. But it's a little slow in combining pieces. In this respect, RAR Expander is better and about twice faster. Those two titles are both free.

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