What should I do, which other ports should I define?

Hey..

I am having the same problem. Only recently (my university restricted all traffic through port 6346 and 6347) have I been unable to use Gnutella servents. I tried scanning for open ports on my computer and tried re-routing Bearshare/Limewire to ports like 80, 1080, etc but to no avail. So does anyone know any other ports that Gnutella is known to work on?

hey which university do you go to. mine just blocked the ports too. i havent had time to look for a fix yet but ill find one eventually..

> So does anyone know any other ports
> that Gnutella is known to work on?

If your university/company does block incoming traffic from port 6346/6347 then you can do nothing. Most users use those ports, according to my hostslist.
If you are not a geek you can try finding some users which use different ports, so do you. If you are a geek you can tunnel traffic via another computer/protocoll (e.g. portforwarding or socks2http).

However gnutella traffic is expensive or violating copyright in your country and that is the reason why it's forbidden at your place. For sure there are technical solutions to get arround (see above), but at least the high traffic will point back to your IP. Make sure you know what you are doing.

Hope it helps, Moak

that is what i was thinking but lets take it a bit further: is is possible to set up some proxy software on my computer to reroute my local tcp stack around the problem? i would think not since that doesnt provide for the communication to the gnutella network through the ports in question.

how about this: is it possible to set up some way to access a specific gneutella user through a port that is not blocked and access the gnutella network through that person, that person acting basically as a proxy? for example, i have some people outside my college network that i could connect to gnutella through if there is a way to set it up. any ideas?

Thanks for the input.

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