how do I use rtorrent with a socks5 proxy?
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According to this ticket (and that one),you need to decide what to proxy: connections to the tracker or all connections (including the ones to peers):
- Proxying tracker connections can be done using the patch mentioned here or using something like Polipo, mentioned here
- Proxying everything can be done, as you already tried, using socksifiers like
tsocks
, but I suppose there's no chance of having incoming connections this way and your BT experience will thus be unsatisfying.
To proxy everything but still have incoming connections, I suspect you'd have to use something VPN-ish.
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chovy over 1 year
How do I get rtorrent to use a socks5 proxy? I've tried to get socks5 to work with rtorrent, but it doesn't seem to have any impact.
Setup the socks5 proxy on port 9800:
ssh -ND 9800 user@otherhost
in .rtorrent.rc
http_proxy=127.0.0.7:9800 proxy_address=127.0.0.7:9800
It cannot download any data from tracker.
Tracker: [Server returned nothing (no headers, no data)]
And my ip does not appear to use the IP from "otherhost" when I check with http://www.checkmytorrentip.com/
I also tried using tsocks rtorrent
server = 127.0.0.1 eserver_type = 5 server_port = 9800
This shows my IP as coming from 'otherhost', but after a few seconds rtorrent freezes up.
I am using rTorrent 0.9.2/0.13.2