* [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop
@ 2009-01-25 5:50 Grant
2009-01-25 17:31 ` Nick Cunningham
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From: Grant @ 2009-01-25 5:50 UTC (permalink / raw
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My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to
reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from
and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p
software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty
creepy. Is that sort of thing expected from p2p software?
- Grant
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop
2009-01-25 5:50 [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop Grant
@ 2009-01-25 17:31 ` Nick Cunningham
2009-01-25 17:35 ` Grant
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From: Nick Cunningham @ 2009-01-25 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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2009/1/25 Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
> My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to
> reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from
> and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p
> software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty
> creepy. Is that sort of thing expected from p2p software?
>
> - Grant
>
>
Thats likely to be normal, a lot of bittorrent clients these days support
finding local peers, so its normal that they would send out queries on your
local network.
I know deluge has an option to enable/disable this, however i dont recall if
transmission has this option.
- Nick
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop
2009-01-25 17:31 ` Nick Cunningham
@ 2009-01-25 17:35 ` Grant
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From: Grant @ 2009-01-25 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
>> My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to
>> reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from
>> and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p
>> software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty
>> creepy. Is that sort of thing expected from p2p software?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> Thats likely to be normal, a lot of bittorrent clients these days support
> finding local peers, so its normal that they would send out queries on your
> local network.
>
> I know deluge has an option to enable/disable this, however i dont recall if
> transmission has this option.
>
> - Nick
Thanks Nick, I'll continue my download.
- Grant
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