Limit uTorrent to only listen to incomming connections

[jdfkencnkd]

Is there a way to limit the uTorrent to incomming connections? I need to prevent uTorrent from trying to connect to peers (outgoing connections that update trackers are okay), but I still want peers to be able to connect in. In other words, can uTorrent be configured/runned as a passive wait-for-incomming-peers server? I have both seeding/completed and also still downloading/incomplete jobs.

If there is no such option, I would like to request it as a new feature (e.g. a command line option or an advanced setting). My goal is to make sure that no outgoing connection is ever attempted (except for updating trackers), even though it might slow down downloading. Thank you.

[DreadWingKnight]

Why do you want it to happen this way?

[jdfkencnkd]

Because I run thousands of torrents simultaneously and my netadmin is running mad about the everending amount of connections going out. It appears to him like my machine must be all worm-eaten with viruses trying to spread. No matter what I set net.max_halfopen to (currently i have net.max_halfopen=2), it is still too much for him. So we started to look for a compromise solution. Thus the idea of a completely passive client (except for the inevitable parts).

I wonder now, would it help to set net.max_halfopen=0? Or this would effectively prevent me from updating trackers? And how about DHT? Thanks for any kind of help/patch/solution..

[Switeck]

net.max_halfopen=0 would prevent tracker updates, which are outgoing TCP connections (unless using udp trackers with uTorrent v2.0).

I presume your torrents are mostly if not entirely from private trackers?

http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/User:The8472/Private_trackers

Other features in uTorrent make extra connections:

DHT, Local Peer Discovery, Resolve IPs, RSS feeds, and probably even WEBUI.

Are you using all those?

[jdfkencnkd]

I am using version 1.8.4 and I use public trackers and DHT only. No local peers, ip resolving, rss, webui is necessary. I do not care about my upload/download ratio and I do not care about my download speed much (though zero speed is somehow not okay

The reason that I want to run so many torrents simultaneously is that the content we distribute over the torrents is rather big to be downloaded from ftp, with many downloaders, but most of the downloading peers are not capable of seeding for a long time. Thus we use torrents to help distribute and mirror the data. And I need to stay running non-stop to keep the torrents alive in the nights. For this, simply passive mode would be perfect.