Bittorrent won't start downloading

["Vegard Lundby Rekaa" <vegardlr@student.matnat.uio.no>]

When starting a download with bittorrent i get this errormessage in red,
and the download doesn't start.

ERROR (04:15) - Problem connecting to tracker - (111, 'Connection is denied')

When I had similar problems with winXP i remember i removed the firewall
wich followed with the OS.

What to do in debian???
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System info:
  Debian Sarge GNU/Linux
  Kernel Image 2.4.27-1-386

Cheers, Vegard