mcourteaux / SpooferBT

Relay torrent tracker communication via TCP to bypass a blocked UDP network.

SpooferBT

Relay UDP torrent tracker traffic via TCP.

Intro

Normally, tracker communication goes through UDP. But in some companies or schools, all UDP traffic is blocked by the network admins. However, TCP/IP traffic is of course not blocked. Hopefully you can connect with any external host. If so, we can setup a proxy system that will allow you to do the tracker communication by using TCP instead of UDP, which hopefully not blocked.

So normally you have:

  [Torrent Client]     <--- UDP --->     [Tracker]

But this application does this:

  [Torrent Client]  <-X- UDP Blocked --->  [Tracker]
          |                                    |
          |                                    |
     Local UDP                                UDP
          |                                    |
          |                                    |
  [SpooferBT Proxy]    <--- TCP --->  [SpooferBT Server]
                                           or Host

So, once this setup is created. You should add the proxy to the torrent client's list of trackers. Peers will now be acquired by this application.

Good luck!

Example run commands

Run the localhost "fake" proxy tracker:

java -jar SpooferBT.jar --proxy --proxy-port 12345 --host [ip_here]:[portA] --tracker tracker.publicbt.com:80

Run the auxiliary server application that runs on IP address [ip_here]:

java -jar SpooferBT.jar --server --server-port [portA]

Now you can add udp://localhost:12345 to your tracker list in the torrent client.