Odd entries in the firewall log attack or passive probing ?

[legitsu]

wondering what that is about

 

[Nullity]

Destination port 6881 is BitTorrent. You will get a huge flood of attempted UDP and TCP connections on the designated bittorrent listening port whenever you are using bittorrent.

I seem to get an occasional, large increase in malicious scan attempts once my IP has been logged to a BitTorrent tracker. Seems like an obvious place to find IPs to scan but I do not know the details of the BitTorrent protocol, so my theory is only a guess.


You might post the entire log entry, since you cut off the beginning of the line.

 

[legitsu]

wow how did I miss that...
its probably just ghost peers looking for my client