Proxy Server to circumvent port prioritization ?

[Noel]

Has anyone had any success using a Proxy server located overseas ?

Applications like Kazaa, etc can connect through a proxy server on Port 80 (which has a high priority), effectively circumventing Telkoms port prioritization.

A high bandwidth subscription to a proxy (Like http-tunnel) would only be about R400 a year.

What I'm wondering is whether Telkoms port prioritization is intelligent enough to realize that while using ADSL to connect to a high priority port, you are in fact connecting to a peer to peer network.

 

[DarkSkies]

I think there is software that can intelligently scan for Kazaa, Overnet etc, specific packets. There is however some legality about a 3rd party opening your packets to scan its content. AS far as I know it is not legal to do this. There is an interesting article over on the ISPA site dealing with the interception of private communications http://www.ispa.org.za/advisory10.html entitled The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provisions of Communication-related Information Act

 

[poweruser]

Isn't there a way that the South African Kazaa users can share files locally and not all download everything internationally? Also isn't there a way to know which download resources is available locally before you start downloading?

I think it makes more sense to calculate only the international traffic and then cap after you reached 3gig intl traffic. This is to say if there needs to be a CAP.

PU

 

[bullstein]

I agree

Would it be possible to share files locally?
Or would it be mostly illegal in a country like South Africa? I remember reading something about there being a reason why KAZAA is situated on some island, because of international copyright laws.

 

[GuLdaN]

You CAN tunnel KaZaA downloads through a proxy via (TCP tunneling I think) I tested some of this stuph on my isdn last nite. Although the proxy might be a problem. There are free proxies out there, just have to find one that isn't extremely slow though.
I read an article on tunneling all kinds of popular programs' through a proxy.
http://www.http-tunnel.com/HT_Products_HTTPTunnelClient.asp

There is instructions on how to tunnel KaZaA and a few other things. The main thing you just need to know is to which port to which server(ip, or adress) it connects to. Then you have to add it in your connections option in the proggy. Then u just let your pc connect to 127.0.0.1 (best place in the world) on the port which the proggy will specify. I tested it on IRC and it worked fine. Got me K-Lined though

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[paf]

Don't see how this would generally work for something like Kazaa. Your peer would need to specifically set-up his Kazaa to use port 80 as an alternative for incoming connections. And you can't choose your peers.

 

[DarkSkies]

You can fully configure your ports with eMule, Overnet and eDonkey. Both UDP and TCP ports can be set, I usually set TCP to 21 and UDP to 110, works great! Kazaa however seems to be a stick in the mud as far as setting ports go.

 

[gripen]

On google, search for kazaahttp. This is a nifty little program that can make Kazaa work behind a firewall with opne port 80. Somehow via proxy methods it uses port 80/http to enable kazaa. Its a beautiful little program that can probably overcome the prioritisation issue...

 

[KnKyJ]

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overnet doesn't seem to work when I change the tcp and udp to those values [xx(]

I am forwarding the default overnet ports on my router, and overnet works on those ports, though <i>very</i> slow

what can I do????

 

[musnit]

The way that kazaa works is that there are lots of supernodes. A supernode is a 'server' that everyone connects to. when u connect to kazaa u automatically connect to a random supernode, and u can only view files of other people connected to the same supernode. If u change ure supernode u can view different files. U can get programs which let u choose wot supernode u want to connect to. If we wanted we could probably create a south african supernode, but we'ed need to find a high speed pc with high speed, always on internet connection and static ip with no cap (not like adsl[]) to act as a supernode. Anyone know anyone with a connection like this that we could convince to do this??

 

[KnKyJ]

yeah we'd also need someone like that for a local DC hub

 

[StephanB]

emule (http://www.emule-project.net) could also be an option, I prefer it because its all open source and anyone can download and run a server.

 

[musnit]

Anyone could run a server on kazaa...but it wouldnt be that effective if that person was slow,got capped and changed their ip every 24 hours.

 

[syntaX1]

Hi all,

Back from Cape Town. It's amazing down there, I want to move there but I'd hate wearing a wetsuit all year.

Well, I've tried HTTP-Tunnel and another one about 3 months ago and still no luck. They intelligently check each packet that passes thru port 80. Isn't that illegal inspecting packets?? I'm sure it is!

Well, there must be a way.

syntaX

 

[zaratul]

Hey all. We have setup the local edonkey server. Point donkey to zahub.kicks-ass.net port: 4661 [][8D][] You can visit http://zahub.kicks-ass.net for more info on other P2P networks for SA