Hello members of LQ. I am a new member here and I need your help.

I have 1 dedicated server and OpenVZ virtualisation set up. On that server I have 4 OpenVZ virtualised servers (VPS) and I run rtorrents on them. When somebody adds a torrent to their rutorrent, it downloads automatically and seeds.

But the problem exists on website where you can't create a torrent without being connectable (means you have rutorrent port open) and that website checks that.

I would need to open ports for rtorrent, ingoing and outgoing so website can check if I am connectable or not through a port.

I have already tried allowing all traffic (maybe I have done it wrong) but it didn't help. I have also restarted iptables with "service iptables restart" but no luck.

OpenVZ VPS and my dedicated machine both run CentOS 6.4 x86_64.

Could anyone help me find where the problem is why doesn't it react to my commands and are they typed good.

Thank you,
n3k0

what iptables commands did you run?

I have tried runnning these 2 commands:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 23879:23886 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 23879:23886 -j ACCEPT

23879:23886 - this is the port range in .rtorrent.rc configuration file

And I have also tried this one which was suggested by my friend:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23879:23886 -j ACCEPT

Any help on fixing this would be appriciated.

I'm sorry my friend hasn't told me about this forum earlier because it's great as it has much information and really fast help.

Thanks

did you ever try adding the ports to the FORWARD range?

No luck with that too... Everything worked well until 2 days ago when I had to reinstall all those VPS, and then these problems started. I have installed everything in the same way as before, and I didn't need to add iptables. I have no idea what could it be.

Here is my "netstat", maybe it helps:
http://pastebin.com/imMzPHxf

Thanks

Nobody has an idea how this should be done, as the commands above don't work correctly...
Thanks

maybe post your whole iptables.rules? censor addresses if you need. you could have a rule dropping the traffic somewhere before. also, are there any upstream firewalls that might need to be reconfigured, ever since you reinstalled the VPS setup?

also, i'm assuming that your torrent traffic is indeed TCP? and not UDP?