BitTorrent macro should use ports 6881:6999, not only 6881:6889

Posted request to mailing list at http://www.shorewall.net/ [to ask if they would consider this request]

Shorewall Guy wrote:
> Craig Kingston wrote:
>> My apollogies if this is not the correct forum, we have an old request
>> in our problem tracker to modify the default ports in macro.Bittorrent
>> to reflect the ports used in the recent versions of Bittorrent. Is
>> this something you would consider doing for a future release? What
>> would be the appropriate process to request this?
>>
>
> Craig,
>
> This type of request is better handled on the Shorewall Development
> mailing list.
>
> Be that as it may, the comments in the current macro file reflect our
> decision about an earlier request to enlarge the Bittorrent port range.
> Are we to understand from this request that the Bittorrent community has
> now decided to grab yet another 100 ports? If so, that definitely
> strengthens our resolve to not be a party to this continuing escalation.

I've updated the comment in both the 4.0 and 4.2 macros to specify
6881:6999 rather that 6881:6899.

FWIW - I did a quick search and there are those who advocate not even using the default port range due to ISPs blocking ports.

Future Ubuntu releases should pick up these changes to the comments (as they are packaged by debian and flow downstream) but the defaults will not change.

Given upstream position [1], I am marking this as won't fix. I see no plausible reason to create a local patch.

gah!

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.shorewall/21445/match=bittorrent