Comments on: Blocking Torrent

By: koppula

koppula — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:53:43 +0000

hi
please send me the links how to block the web site in my system …i want to block some particular sites please send me the text files with out using any software… thanking you
my mail id is mahesh539@gmail.com

By: petkoa

petkoa — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:38:10 +0000

Torrent clients (and users ) are quite inventive when it comes to circumvention of firewalls, etc. Maybe a more productive approach is to (1) set high QoS priorities and scores for the necessary applications; (2) take some measures to force torrent traffic into TCP like closing all unnecessary UDP ports (torrents on UDP are absolutely irrepressible); (3) let the torrent clients use the rest (could and should you afford firing the abusers?)…

By: gengw2000

gengw2000 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:00:43 +0000

Blocking of torrent downloading is not easy unless you have an application level firewall( “untangle” linux box, or “WFilter Enterprise” like software).

However, there have things you can try:

1. Block downloading of “.torrent” files and “application/x-bittorrent” content type in your ISA server.

2. Limit maximum concurrent connections. Bittorrent will connect hundreds of connections for better speed, so limit the maximum connections number can limit its downloading speed.

3. Forbid installation of bittorrent like programs(bittorrent, utorrent, bitcomet…) in your AD group policy.