I'm just curious here. I'm running Lion and I set up the OS X firewall to block all incoming connections, yet when I run uTorrent it seeds fine, which is awesome but I thought I'd have to set up the firewall to allow uTorrent to accept incoming connections. So does that work when the firewall should be blocking it? And does it mean other things can get through the firewall or not?
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Question about OS X's firewall and uTorrent
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I never set up an exception. It could have been using a standard port though. I was using magnet links and the communication was through DHT.
Seeding is outgoing traffic, isnt it?
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I thought it was incoming traffic since you usually have to change the firewall settings.
I do have Little Snitch
uTorrent supports automatic port mapping with either NAT-PMP or UPnP, assuming your router also supports one of those protocols (most modern routers support at least UPnP).
Since uTorrent is working for you, you probably already have this option selected. To verify, go to uTorrent Preferences-->Network and you'll see that the option "Automatically map port" is checked.
No muss, no fuss. Wikipedia has good articles on NAT-PMP and UPnP if you want to read more about how they work.
Since uTorrent is working for you, you probably already have this option selected. To verify, go to uTorrent Preferences-->Network and you'll see that the option "Automatically map port" is checked.
No muss, no fuss. Wikipedia has good articles on NAT-PMP and UPnP if you want to read more about how they work.