if your problem is about censorship, you oculd have a look at "BoF" project, haven't tried it, but it may help.
Bof = "Bitcoin over Freenet" ; you probably already heard about Freenet [ http://freenetproject.org/ ] if you live in china & are concerned by censorship.
Can't link to USK here, but you'll find the link from most index freesites.
Topic: Is it possible to block BTC related traffic in a firewall? (Read 2456 times)
Bitcoin isn't an anti-censorship system— it's trivial to block.
If you're concerned about bitcoin being blocked setup and maintain a Bitcoin node on a tor hidden service (see doc/Tor.txt), we could use some more of them.
If you're concerned about bitcoin being blocked setup and maintain a Bitcoin node on a tor hidden service (see doc/Tor.txt), we could use some more of them.
Thanks, just want to evaluate the risk of a block at major back-bone switch. Google and youtube are totally blocked in main land china, so I suppose it is not very difficult for government to do such a block if they decided to do so
If a client is running on port 80, will it be able to connect to rest of the network?
Ports 0 - 1023 are special ports that would require your Bitcoin client to be running at elevated root privilege. (Bad idea.)
Bitcoin won't bind to port 80 as a normal user.
You can use tor to bypass firewall blocking bitcoin port. And even if it is actively trying to block tor you can still try to connect with tor bridge.
If I block port 8333, will it still work?
Depends. Are you blocking the incoming or outgoing packets?
If a client is running on port 80, will it be able to connect to rest of the network?
It's the other way around.It will only connect when someone else has a client running on port 80.
That's assuming the firewall is not being totally paranoid.
It depends on how restrictive the firewall is.
Usually it doesn't matter what port your client uses.
If port 80 is not being blocked then you only need someone running a client on port 80 to connect to it.
Usually it doesn't matter what port your client uses.
If port 80 is not being blocked then you only need someone running a client on port 80 to connect to it.
If a client is running on port 80, will it be able to connect to rest of the network?
layer 7 filtering : http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
It depends on how restrictive the firewall is.
Usually it doesn't matter what port your client uses.
If port 80 is not being blocked then you only need someone running a client on port 80 to connect to it.
Usually it doesn't matter what port your client uses.
If port 80 is not being blocked then you only need someone running a client on port 80 to connect to it.
If I block port 8333, will it still work?
Or simply, can I use port 80 in a node?
Or simply, can I use port 80 in a node?
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