From: Eric Ceradsky (eric.ceradskysbcglobal.net)
Date: Tue May 11 2004 - 01:43:21 CDT

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In-Reply-To: <F2F587B9DD51284EB3197919CADBC468053245forums.20vturbo.com>

See I original thought and still suspect torrent traffic.

Slackware.org is using torrents for downloading thier free distro ISOs now. I bet that was it. I was running slackware before and had to grab an ISO from them. I didn't notice the traffic before cause I didn't have logging turn up until now. And when I was done people were prob still trying to hit my ip for my seed.

So I released my IP and got a new one and the traffic stopped and I haven't seen if for the last few days.

Its sounds like to me that makes the most sense. However the one thing that was making me question was the fact that I know torrents run on ports 6881-6889 not 3889.

But that link does show that its changable.. maybe some bit torrent client has a default that changes it to 3889 because obviously I was seeing several different clients with the same port so the odds of them just randomly using that port would see to high.

Anyway that seems to be the most logical explaination.

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