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2009/1/25 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> |
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> My network's firewall is rejecting a bunch of attempts by my laptop to |
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> reach 192.168.x.x systems which don't exist. The requests are from |
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> and to very high port numbers. This must have to do with the p2p |
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> software I'm running (transmission), but I thought it was pretty |
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> creepy. Is that sort of thing expected from p2p software? |
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> - Grant |
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Thats likely to be normal, a lot of bittorrent clients these days support |
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finding local peers, so its normal that they would send out queries on your |
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local network. |
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I know deluge has an option to enable/disable this, however i dont recall if |
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transmission has this option. |
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- Nick |
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