full-disclosure - big activity

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From: coderman at charter.net (coderman)
Subject: big activity

misiu_@....de wrote:

>...
>BitTorrent protocol header has been detected
>... A BitTorrent
>protocol header has been detected on a default BitTorrent port. This
>signature detects attempts to connect to one of the default BitTorrent ports
>(6881-6889)
>Does anyone seeing this too?
>  
>
Two questions:

1. are you on a dynamic IP address?  The bittorrent tracker will cache
peer information for an arbitrarily long amount of time.

2. are you using any p2p software or other application that might be
using bittorrent under the hood?

In either case, this should be merely annoyance, and not represent
any kind of attack or potential danger.