bob925 Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Running uTorrent 2.2.1 on 2 different computers (xp home 32bit and xp pro 64bit). They appear to randomly be determining that the machine is a local peer of itself for random torrents. There are no torrents in common between the 2 machines. There are no other machines on my network running uTorrent. Under IP address it shows the computer's network name rather than an actual IP, and I've seen sometimes that it shows the wrong version of the client. Enable Local Peer Discovery is turned off on both clients. It really seems to me that this probably isn't an issue with uTorrent itself and I may have some sort of virus or malware that is causing my clients to report the computers as their own peers rather than an actual peer. It could be some open backdoor in uTorrent that's allowing this also, I suppose. It could be something else occurring that's intended that I'm just not aware. Note that the status bar shows uploads to local peers reach several hundred KB so it's not negligible. Is there any way to test this, or to not allow local peer discovery (keeping in mind that I've already turned it off in preferences)?Thanks in advance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Turn off name resolution on the peers tab and see what the IP addresses actually are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob925 Posted June 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Confirmed that the IP address is my router. I have 2 routers setup. One from the ISP that's directly connected to the internet and my own that's connect to the ISP's router. All my mahcines are connected to my own router. The IP that shows is the IP of my router, as my ISP's routher sees it. Hope that was clear. Still no idea why this is happening though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwachtel Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Same thing is happening to me, why does the happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob925 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 never got an explanation/fix for this... Do you have the same set up, with multiple routers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwachtel Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 No, just 1 router but multiple interfaces using pfSense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob925 Posted July 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 sounds like that recreates the functionality of a router via software? wonder if the issue is specifically related to setups that have (or think they have) multiple routers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwachtel Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 Not sure, and apparently no one knows/cares. I just used ipfilter.dat to block my LAN to prevent loopback. Everything is still working, not sure if I am loosing out by doing that or not, but it's not right regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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