Constant traffic even with no active torrents?

[beerski]

I run little snitch and noticed that as long as I have transmission running there is a constant flow of different connections (incoming and outgoing) even though there are no torrents in the client at all.

It looks like more than simple update checks, or blacklist updates as the traffic is constant and to many different IPs. It also continues with those settings disabled.

What's the deal? I'm running v1.72.

[newsound]

I have this same problem. Any thoughts?

[wouzs]

I have the same issue. I run Transmission 1.73 on OpenWRT (linux). When I disable DHT the connections are gone.
Is it a good idea to leave DHT disabled?

[jch]

I run little snitch and noticed that as long as I have transmission running there is a constant flow of different connections (incoming and outgoing) even though there are no torrents in the client at all. It looks like more than simple update checks, or blacklist updates as the traffic is constant and to many different IPs. It also continues with those settings disabled.

This is the normal behaviour of the DHT, and nothing to worry about. The total traffic should normally be on the order of 200 bytes per second, perhaps a little more.

You see, the DHT does three things:

1. exchanging information about other DHT peers to make sure that the DHT remains connected;

2. querying other DHT peers about the torrents that you're participating in;

3. tracking torrents for other peers.

When you're not participating in any torrents, you're not doing (2), but you're still doing (1) and (3).

Is it a good idea to leave DHT disabled?

It is a good idea not to switch the DHT on and off too often -- whenever you join or leave the DHT, you cause some minor disruption to the network.

--Juliusz