qBittorrent Connects to uTorrent, Transmission, Other Sites on Launch

MAC OS X specific questions, problems.
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chalkoutline

qBittorrent Connects to uTorrent, Transmission, Other Sites on Launch

Post by chalkoutline »

New to qBittorrent, installed on MacOS Mojave and noticed that every time I launch the app, it attempts to connect to the following domains (as notified by my firewall) even when there are no torrents loaded:

dht.transmissionbt.com
router.utorrent.com
dht.aelitis.com

Why is it trying to connect to websites of competing products?
chrstphrchvz

Re: qBittorrent Connects to uTorrent, Transmission, Other Sites on Launch

Post by chrstphrchvz »

You have DHT enabled (Preferences > BitTorrent > Privacy > "Enable DHT (decentralized network) to find more peers"). It will connect to those sites because they are "DHT bootstrap nodes".

Searching qBittorrent's source code, these are indeed hard-coded into qBittorrent:

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorr ... .cpp#L1418
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorr ... .cpp#L1696

This isn't a Mac-specific or even qBittorrent-specific behavior. The same bootstrap nodes can be found hard-coded into other open source DHT-supporting BitTorrent clients as well.
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