Oo0Bailey0oO Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I've been attempting to use uTorrent with a SOCKS5 proxy (PrivateInternetAccess.com if that helps diagnose the issue), but I can't seem to get it working consistently. On the other hand, if the proxy is off everything works great.All of the torrents are stuck on "Connecting". Every 24 hours roughly, the client will take a fit and download 6 torrents before returning to "Connecting" on the rest. None of the torrents seed and the connection says either "Not connectable" or "No incoming connections". I suspect that these torrents have slipped passed the proxy setting somehow and that's the only reason it works.The message log shows lots of errors, such as:Disconnect: Disconnect: Proxy connect error: connection closed by peerConnecting: source: LDisconnect: Peer error: offline (timed out)The "source: L" message is interesting as I've read elsewhere that Local Peer Discovery hasn't been added to the Mac version yet.I took a crack at WireShark for packet sniffing, but all I can see is a back and forth between my computer and the proxy with my login credentials going out and "m" coming back. I tried to decode to HTTP but nothing happened.I should add that I see ICMP "Destination port unreachable" errors too, but from what I've read, this is to be expected.For settings, I tried to mimic the proxy setting advice I've seen elsewhere for Windows. Namely, set a port that I had already forwarded on my router and then turned off Random port and NAT-PMP. I've also used the fqdn and a particular IP to see if that made a difference.Any assistance is appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 11, 2013 Report Share Posted July 11, 2013 I should add that I see ICMP "Destination port unreachable" errors too, but from what I've read, this is to be expected.Exactly! Which is why running BitTorrent protocol clients over a publicly available proxy is rarely successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oo0Bailey0oO Posted July 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 So this kind of performance is to be expected? Strange that I only see Mac people complaining about various proxies with various Mac-based BT clients. Windows folks seem to be ok.I suppose my alternative is to bottle a VPN in a VM, but I'm not crazy about the overhead required to run that.I did see SOCKS5 proxy issues resolved in libtorrent 0.16.10, but µTorrent doesn't use libtorrent, does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted July 12, 2013 Report Share Posted July 12, 2013 You cannot forward a listening port through a proxy and with public use proxies, if two users just happen to have the same port set, communication fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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