using transmission torrent client behind a proxy

[Tapas Mishra]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> n 20 January 2011 07:52, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I should not be asking this question as it is a straight forward thing
>> but the situation where I use my machine.
>> I am having internet connection in an environment whose proxies I do not know.
>> In firefox
>> Edit->Preferences->Network->Connection-->Settings --->Use system Proxy
>> settings option is there.
>> So I have not given any IP or port combination here and my Internet
>> works very smoothly.
>>
>
> Do you actually use a proxy though? That dialog just means "Don't
> maintain my own proxy settings, use whatever the host proxy settings
> are". Which you'll find in System -> preferences -> network proxy.
> That's your proxy server address, if indeed there is one.
>
>> Since Firefox uses System Proxy settings and in one day I am at
>> different places(different organizations)
>>  each place has a different network environment but I have internet
>> working each time (without any change to any Firefox settings)
>
> So maybe there is no proxy?
Yes there is no proxy (I was aware but not sure)
> If you go to http://www.whatsmyip.org/more/ do you see "Proxy: No
> Proxy or Invisible Proxy Used "? In addition is there an
> HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR which may indicate a proxy is in use.
I understand this header.
>> so if I want to use Transmission also simultaneousy (in a situation
>> where I am not aware of proxy or proxy does not exist but rest ports
>> are blocked)
>> then what should I be doing?
>>
>
> Firstly I'd make sure you're allowed to use bittorrent on the networks
> you're on. Most corporate and education networks (rightly or wrongly)
> block bittorrent where I am, proxy or not.


I am a junior member of a project where in my group is doing some
research on virtualization.
(Not in terms of technology i.e. developer perspective is not there)
My work is to create different virtual machine environments for them
using what ever they say and create different installations on those
virtual machines which can be varying in nature and would be used for
the groups experiments.
Basically the group then does some stuff and I am told to delete or
create a new VM or environment or install some server or something
something.So I have admin privielges for this server to the test
machines.How ever I before posting had checked http_proxy (if I had
defined and I did not found) so I was not sure as how was I given net
access.
Which by your messages is now  confirmed that it is a direct link.

My recent work which is scheduled is to create a CentOS PV guest on a
Lucid 10.10 server using Xen4.0 how ever I find it difficult to
download the CD images (or use specially of CentOS) as I could not
find a single mirror where I could get the complete DVD as an ISO.

Here is the link to CentOS mirror from their site
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/
where they say due to bandwidth restrictions
they do not give the DVD image (I need the full DVD)

So this is where I want to use Transmisison in this environment.
So let me know how can I over come this problem.

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Thanks
Tapas