Bypass torrent block of my university network?

[ernglg]

There is a filtering at university for bittorrent and in fact any attempt to bittorent causes to be banned for a while. I have map the school network with nmap and traceroute to see the route of the packages and the possible candidate serevers causing this filtering. I saw that my packages pass straight on just two machines. One is the router machine of my a little network with addresses and the other machine is the main gateway of the university network that is connected to the out bound net. In addition I run nmap to see the open ports of these machines to see the predict applications running on machines. Here are the list of open ports :

The last gateway to the outbound :

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PORT    STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp  open     ssh
25/tcp  open     smtp
135/tcp filtered msrpc
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
161/tcp filtered snmp
179/tcp open     bgp
199/tcp filtered smux
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
873/tcp open     rsync
No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see http://nmap.org/submit/ ).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
OS:SCAN(V=5.21%D=1/16%OT=22%CT=1%CU=37350%PV=N%DS=1%DC=I%G=Y%TM=50F6C132%P=
OS:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=CC%GCD=1%ISR=CF%TI=Z%CI=Z%II=I%TS=U)OPS(
OS:O1=M5B4NNSNWA%O2=M5B4NNSNWA%O3=M5B4NWA%O4=M5B4NNSNWA%O5=M5B4NNSNWA%O6=M5
OS:B4NNS)WIN(W1=111C%W2=111C%W3=111C%W4=111C%W5=111C%W6=111C)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T
OS:=40%W=111C%O=M5B4NNSNWA%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T
OS:2(R=N)T3(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=111C%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%O=M5B4NNSNWA%RD=0%Q=)T3(R=Y%
OS:DF=Y%T=40%W=111C%S=O%A=O%F=A%O=%RD=0%Q=)T4(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R
OS:%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=Y%DF=Y%T=
OS:40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0
OS:%Q=)U1(R=Y%DF=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G%RID=G%RIPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUD=G)IE(R
OS:=Y%DFI=N%T=40%CD=S)

Network Distance: 1 hop


first node just after my machine:

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PORT    STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp  open     ssh
25/tcp  open     smtp
135/tcp filtered msrpc
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
161/tcp filtered snmp
179/tcp open     bgp
199/tcp filtered smux
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
873/tcp open     rsync
No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see http://nmap.org/submit/ ).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
OS:SCAN(V=5.21%D=1/16%OT=22%CT=1%CU=37350%PV=N%DS=1%DC=I%G=Y%TM=50F6C132%P=
OS:x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=CC%GCD=1%ISR=CF%TI=Z%CI=Z%II=I%TS=U)OPS(
OS:O1=M5B4NNSNWA%O2=M5B4NNSNWA%O3=M5B4NWA%O4=M5B4NNSNWA%O5=M5B4NNSNWA%O6=M5
OS:B4NNS)WIN(W1=111C%W2=111C%W3=111C%W4=111C%W5=111C%W6=111C)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T
OS:=40%W=111C%O=M5B4NNSNWA%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T
OS:2(R=N)T3(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=111C%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%O=M5B4NNSNWA%RD=0%Q=)T3(R=Y%
OS:DF=Y%T=40%W=111C%S=O%A=O%F=A%O=%RD=0%Q=)T4(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R
OS:%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=Y%DF=Y%T=
OS:40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0
OS:%Q=)U1(R=Y%DF=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G%RID=G%RIPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUD=G)IE(R
OS:=Y%DFI=N%T=40%CD=S)

Network Distance: 1 hop

With respect to these information do you think what causes that filtering and how can be bypassed?

[fashizzlepop]

That first one is probably what sniffs for bittorrent traffic. If you need, just tunnel it through SSH or a SOCK5 proxy. Or use a vpn. Is ALL torrent traffic disallowed? Even legitimate downloading (linux ISOs come to mind)?

I still torrent stuff at my university but I use a private tracker and I've never had a problem.

[illusion_]

Probably the best way to bypass filtering of any kind is to tunnel your traffic through a VPN. That will make your connection slower, but it makes it virtually impossible to filter your traffic (because all they see is VPN traffic, not what's going on inside the VPN). There are plenty of free VPN services out there, but not all of them allow you to tunnel Internet traffic through them. Look for VPN services that claim to make you anonymous online.

Also, Tor would probably work

[fashizzlepop]

Also, Tor would probably work

Don't use Tor for p2p sharing. It's not meant for that. It will be slow and it will also make it slower for everyone else.

[-Ninjex-]

If you have a linux box, you could look into proxychains as well.

[fashizzlepop]

Idk about "chaining" but using it as an SSH tunnel basically gives you your own VPN per se. Of course it would have to be sitting outside of the school network as well.