From: Nick Cunningham <nick@monkeydust.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:31:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e99b2eae0901250931g73bfbb20l3ebaecd04b03346e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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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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2009-01-25 5:50 [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop Grant
2009-01-25 17:31 ` Nick Cunningham [this message]
2009-01-25 17:35 ` Grant
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