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Let's assume I want to run this on a Hetzner box. And let's assume all my activity is legit torrenting. Say, sharing linux distros. They are still not exactly g
by throwaway77384 5y ago
Let's assume I want to run this on a Hetzner box. And let's assume all my activity is legit torrenting. Say, sharing linux distros. They are still not exactly going to be over the moon with my seedbox running on their servers, due to torrenting stigma.
You can replace 'Hetzner' with any VPS service here, really. What measures can one take to 'hide' torrenting activity?
- sixhobbits 5y agoMaybe something like https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
- robcohen 5y agoDon’t see how this would help, only thing that would help is a tunnel out, like WireGuard to a VPN or less reputable provider.
- hauxir 5y agoYou can tunnel traffic through NordVPN. This is for rapidbay but should work for any service: https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay/wiki/Setting-RapidBay-up-on-a-VPS-and-tunnel-torrent-traffic-through-NordVPN https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay/wiki/Setting-RapidBay-up-...
- throwaway77384 5y agoHow much does this diminish performance?
- sodality2 5y agoSpeed is probably 85-95% of normal speeds. Maybe less if the speed is gigabit. Depends on servers or VPN service.
- throwaway77384 5y agoOk great, thanks :)
- beepbooptheory 5y agoMaybe I shouldn't jinx it... but I run this container on hetzner, with a proprietary vpn service, and have never had any problems for a long long time now
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- maeln 5y agoI have run torrents on several VPS/Server provider (mostly OVH) and never had any issue.
- throwaway77384 5y agoGood to know, thanks :)
- crossroadsguy 5y agoKimsufi onced nuked my server. Someone was running the usual blanket port scan and my IP was scanned. That was it. Weeks later someone replied to the ticket with an one liner “server hack suspected”. Then radio silence forever.
- boudin 5y agoNever had issue with OVH or Scaleway
- throwaway77384 5y agoAlright, cool, I'll probably try that!
- Aeolun 5y agoI haven’t hidden my torrenting activity on my Hetzner box for years, and they haven’t kicked me off. I assume their problem would be mostly with a huge amount of traffic, not torrent per se.
- lstodd 5y agoYep, they don't care so long as you don't cause problems for them. If only they didn't put 5.14 kernel into their rescue image this summer, but that's another story.
- throwaway77384 5y agoWhy is kernel 5.14 an issue?
- vorpalhex 5y agoWell, one would find a provider who focuses on seedboxes. Usually these providers - at least the ones who last - put their boxes in a foreign data center and mix it with other traffic.
- 19h 5y agoOnly use private trackers :-)
- _joel 5y agoNever had an issue, I encrypt everything fwiw.
- dmos62 5y agoBetter clients can periodically change between random ports and use encryption. I would expect such a client to require a pretty specific search to be discovered. What we can't really protect from is someone watching the global P2P traffic by posturing as another client, but that's a bit more involved than doing a wireshark survey.
- alaties 5y agoBest option is to force encryption on all bittorrent traffic. Most clients support full protocol encryption (PE or MSE) these days, so forcing it shouldn't be an issue. For libtorrent, you'd set in_enc_policy and out_enc_policy to pe_forced. Whether a particular client exposes this or not depends. In the case of this project... looks like upstream github.com/anacrolix/torrent does support encrypted connections. Not clear how to force it to use _only_ encrypted connections though.
- isatty 5y agoI’ve been running private torrents on Hetzner for years and they’ve not kicked me out yet.