[kwlug-disc] Blocking Bittorrrent

[Paul Nijjar]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:13:08PM -0500, Chris Frey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 09:03:26PM -0500, bbierman42 at gmail.com wrote:
> > You can block UDP on your network except DNS. Bittorrent uses UDP to
> > send the packets. 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that bittorrent can use UDP and TCP.

Agreed. Other protocols we do not mind (such as VoIP-based ones) also
use UDP, so I do not think blanket-blocking UDP will work. It is a
good idea, however.

- Paul 

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