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diff --git a/content/blog/2023/always-have-the-entire-network-in-mind.md b/content/blog/2023/always-have-the-entire-network-in-mind.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f95fa51 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2023/always-have-the-entire-network-in-mind.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: "Always Have the Entire Network in Mind" +category: engineering +abstract: fixing torrent by fixing the network config +date: 2023-03-08T14:46:19+01:00 +year: 2023 +draft: false +tags: +- deluge +- rtorrent +- synology +- unify +- firewall +- sysadmin +--- +{{<img-pull-right "bittorrent-logo.png" "BitTorrent 4 lyfe">}} +Recently I moved my torrenting from Synology's Download Station to dedicated programs inside Docker - first Deluge, now rTorrent. And it was slow, impossibly slow. Those clients even had problems getting the real names of the torrents, not to mention connecting to any clients. + +Guess what the problem was. + +Of course, as always, it was the sysadmin. + +Synology is plug-and-play enough to use UPnP. My poor docker-locked clients did not. I needed to create a forwarding rule on my router which would point the port to the Synology and configure Docker to forward the port to the Docker container. + +I am not a smart admin. |