Many "strange" inbound connections

[Aureliano Buendía]

When I close uTorrent client and I have deleted my torrent file, I see many inbound connections that attempt to access indirectly to my computer on 47822 port. It is as uTorrent let it an listener on this port.

Any idea?

Ciao.

[jewelisheaven]

Hrmm? Are you seeing these in your firewall application? They are harmless if uT is closed. The reason: the application is closed and nothing is listening to receive them. The reason FOR the connections is due to your IP:port being in the swarm for new peers. You will also see this if you enable error messages while having uT with stopped torrents which were previously started. It will say (If Verbose and Errors is enabled) "disconnected, hash (hex characters) does not exist" or somesuch. This says that the client is trying to connect for a torrent which was previous started and listed as shared, but is no longer so.

[Aureliano Buendía]

Yes, I see this on my firewall log. If I have utorrent closed, I see many many incoming connection to my 48722 port (reject from firewall). The strange behavior for me it is when I uninstalled utorrent, I see some incoming connection on 48722 port (reject from firewall). The problem it is my IP is a source of the iso (ubuntu linux distro) that I have downloaded with utorrent. But my question it is that if I deleted my torrent file, my IP should be hidden to peer community that search the ubuntu distro.

Or not?

Ciao and happy new year!!

[jewelisheaven]

Once your IP:port is reported to the tracker and/or DHT / PEX it will be listed there until all peers who had any contact with you disappear and the tracker clears its cache including your IP:port Like I said nothing to worry about.