Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:35:44
Message-Id: 49bf44f10901250935l2a617a46yb18372ec1210d5ad@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange local connection requests from my laptop by Nick Cunningham
1 >> My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to
2 >> reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from
3 >> and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p
4 >> software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty
5 >> creepy. Is that sort of thing expected from p2p software?
6 >>
7 >> - Grant
8 >>
9 >
10 > Thats likely to be normal, a lot of bittorrent clients these days support
11 > finding local peers, so its normal that they would send out queries on your
12 > local network.
13 >
14 > I know deluge has an option to enable/disable this, however i dont recall if
15 > transmission has this option.
16 >
17 > - Nick
18
19 Thanks Nick, I'll continue my download.
20
21 - Grant