Using Azureus with TOR
Azureus is a Java BitTorrent client, that’s platform independent, as long as you have Java Runtime Environment installed. Be sure that you have JRE installed for this program to work. You can refer to this post of mine, to get JRE installed on your Debian box.
Latest version of Azureus is 2.5.0.2, you can get it here. After you have downloaded the package, extract it to any location of your liking, I extracted it into /usr/local/ for this tutorial. Use this command to run Azureus, /usr/local/azureus/./azureus, assuming you are installing it at the location same as mine.
Installing Tor, can be found in my previous article here.
So now, the situation here is, my ISP is not happy with BitTorrent, they have blocked tracker connection. This workaround works for me, at the moment(sigh, this war is going on and on). In Azureus, Tools > Options > Connections > Proxy Options, follow my settings.
Do not enable proxy for peer-peer communications, that’s the worst thing on earth to do! This setting will not work if your TOR is not running.
Also, I have enabled Transport Encryption in Tools > Options > Connections > Transport Encryption, settings as below.
It doesn’t surprise me to see so many peers with Transport Encryption enabled, P2P blocking is a common ISP practice.
So, your Azureus status should show you some promising status like this.
If you get something like “Firewalled”, your software firewall or router might be blocking the listening ports that Azureus uses.
I use port 49155 for Azureus, you can assign any port from 49152 to 65535. Remember to do NAT portforwarding if you are behind a router. Portforward.com has detailed instructions for various routers available on the market.
So these are my settings that work at the moment, please discuss with me.
Reference:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/doc/AnonBT/Tor/howto_0.5.htm
If running the likes of ZoneAlarm, you have to be careful to allow or accept all aspects for the following programs, Privoxy, Tor, and Vidalia. For ease and assurance that you have them all. sort or group all like programs by clicking the tab “Programs” once or twice to get the programs in the desired order. Thanks for your assistance.
aight no I did exactly what this doc said and well it works thanks, yours was the best resource that I have found yet, but I am still being firewalled according to azureus and according to my network connections window I am not externally firewalled. Is their any chance my windows firewall could be blocking incoming connections? oh and are the incoming connections udp or tcp?
Thanks for the post man really helped me. Should be good for other tiscali users getting throttled.
Currently uploading at 40kb/s
Hi, i read your doc. It helped a lot… one question, “Do not enable proxy for peer-peer communications, that’s the worst thing on earth to do!”, Why?. Thanks.
Hi, it is because P2P often means download, while TOR network is not designed to handle such task. Imagine someone subscribed to per usage internet plan with ISP, kindly offer his node to the TOR network. So you are actually consuming his bandwidth for your p2p download.
Hey so I changed the proxya nd transport encryption setting to the ones shown here and have tor installed, what else do I need to do?
Should i be concerned that Vuze reports my actual ip address as my public ip address? I am running tor, and with torbutton enabled in firefox, my true ip address is successfully masked. Is it rational that i would feel safer if my public ip address were something off the Tor network? Can this be achieved?
On another note, is there value to configuring my Vuze as discussed herein if my ISP is giving me no problems?
fyi, my Vuze shows Ratio with a red dot to the left of it, and Firewalled with a red dot to the left of it, also. Is this bad? Why? My Vuze appears to be working fine. I have no NAT OK displayed. what is the value & meaning of NAT OK? Of having a green dot as its status?
in case i failed to make it clear,
“Is it rational that i would feel safer if my public ip address were something off the Tor network?”
should read:
“Is it rational that i would feel safer if my public ip address, when being reported/identified by Vuze, were something off the Tor network?