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No Torrents! Please help!

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rina120

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Original poster
Dec 25, 2012
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Hello,
I've posted this issue on my torrent sites, but seems no one is available

I can no longer, all of a sudden download any torrents. I used both bittorrent and utorrent and the situation is the same: Hostname not found.

I have checked firewalls, I have flushed DNS cache, I have changed to googles dns.
I have uninstalled and re installed bittorrent. No change.
Also, this occurs no matter whose network I am using, so I do not think it is a router issue.

The issue occurred after I tried downloading torrents at a hotel and their IT service blocked me. I was never able to download a torrent again.

It's driving me nuts, and I can find no assistance on google searches other than the ones I have already mentioned.

Thanks in Advance!!!!!
 
Interesting.

This is what my hosts file says
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost


What do I need to do to change that?

Thanks again for your reply!
 
Tried a different IP?
Maybe it isn't your computer but your network..
Unlikely but possible. Can't think of anything else by now.
 
rina120 said:
Hello,
I've posted this issue on my torrent sites, but seems no one is available

I can no longer, all of a sudden download any torrents. I used both bittorrent and utorrent and the situation is the same: Hostname not found.

...

Thanks in Advance!!!!!
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ISPs do not like torrents. How do you know that your ISP didn't start blocking torrents all of a sudden?
 
I can get over the hotel IT dept doing it to me.

And I know its not my isp. My other macbooks work fine and I have this problem on every network I have logged into..

No one else?
 
rina120 said:
I can get over the hotel IT dept doing it to me.

And I know its not my isp. My other macbooks work fine and I have this problem on every network I have logged into..

No one else?
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Go to a friend's house, connect to the internet from there and try downloading any torrent. Tell me if it worked.
 
ezramoore said:
This sounds like sweet retribution, as a sysadmin.
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Sounds like you are an inexperienced sysadmin. Torrents have many legit uses, distros of Linux, scientific data, etc. Besides, you sysadmins can't seem to outsmart the ITSEC crowd. If we want something, we get it. Tunneling via port 80. Good luck catching that. Sorry about the ego crushing.
 
cgk.emu said:
Sorry about the ego crushing.
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Haha, it was a joke, but I'm glad it got to you.

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Well, I did feel pretty good getting you so worked up with my casual joke cgk.emu, but then I took a quick look at your post history and discovered that you are just a rude contrary with nothing to add to any serious converstation. Bummer.
 
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