Reading https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html explains vulnerabilities to VPNs. I was aware of several of them, but some I wasn’t.
Are VPNs still useful for torrenting?
Reading https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html explains vulnerabilities to VPNs. I was aware of several of them, but some I wasn’t.
Are VPNs still useful for torrenting?
I don’t get the port forwarding issue. If I’m torrenting something on port 78660 but my only outgoing ports visible to others is port 8081, then couldn’t I just tell my torrent software to use port 8081?
I don’t really understand how torrenting is impacted by this, unless all torrent clients use a baked in port number (which from what I’ve seen over the last few decades, all torrent clients allow you to change the outgoing port)
Outgoing ports aren’t the issue. At least one client involved in the transfer must have a port available that does not filter out incoming traffic. That means you can still download and upload even without a forwarded point, but you can only upload and download from people with forwarded ports. If you have port forwarding, you can download and upload with everybody.
You lost me in that middle part. Are there any further resources I can read to understand this better?
Probably this discussion explains it better than I did.
Oh I see!