infirmus Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Yesterday the following userwide pm msg was sent to all members of a private torrent site announcing that BitComet has been banned.=========================The BitComet torrent client will no longer be permitted on ***Torrents effective December 08, 2005 at 16:00 GMTThis is due to the fact that BitComet disregards the "private flag" and attempts to contact peers on DHT based "trackerless" networks if the torrent is available on such a network. This is a security concern for ***torrents.org.This is a logic flaw in BitComet and has been recorded on BitComet's forums numerous times. You can verify this by searching in the BitComet forum "BitComet Bugs & Feature Requests" for the term "private" or by viewing this specific topic: http://www.p2pforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=17442.The proper way to handle the "private flag" is described nicely by Azureus's wiki:http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Secure_Torrents"upon seeing this flag set, (Azureus) will disable any sort of external peer exchange for that torrent; meaning only peers given out by the tracker will be used"***Torrents recommends using uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com) or Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net) as they both handle the private flag as described above.Do not complain to ***Torrents staff about this decision; we will make no exceptions. Should the author of BitComet change his clients handling of the private flag in future versions we may revisit the decision at that time.=============And now uTorrent is telling me "Failure: Your client is banned". The site has not made any announcements on why uTorrent has been banned yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Well, it's not ScT, since I'm using uT on it right now...but there's a thread about BC getting mass banned already http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=3214 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infirmus Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Well, it's not ScT, since I'm using uT on it right now...but there's a thread about BC getting mass banned already http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=3214It is ScT. I think they have just stuffed something up in the BitComet banning process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Well, I'm using it at this very moment and I'm not getting that error message...I even scraped right now and it worked.That's kind of weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infirmus Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 An Azureus CVS user says that their client was banned too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Maybe they did screw something up. Perhaps you should make a thread on there about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infirmus Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Yeah, have already done.Doesnt seem to be a purposeful banning.Other ppl there arent having problems with uTorrent either... The Azureus CVS user thinks that its something to do with proxies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepsitrev Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 i have not had any problems with utorrent any site i been on so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 That's good to hear, Pepsitrev. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kludge Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 luckily the few private trackers i'm on now are quite happy (upon extensive testing) to accept µtorrent as a good client :thumbsup: and rightly so!as for Bitcomet, i've known that for a long time, and no-one ever listened to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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