Ubuntu
bittorrent package

BitTorrent starts tracker by default - confusing and default network service open

Bug #32985 reported by Trent Lloyd
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #27654: Issues with bittorrent init script. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

the BitTorrent package, as depended on by gnome-btdownload, which is part of ubuntu-desktop, starts a BitTorrent tracker by default.

This is
 a) silly

and

 b) Opens up a network port by default

lathiat@HvoqtaH:~$ sudo lsof -n|grep bttrack|grep LISTEN
bttrack.b 5771 root 3u IPv4 13431 TCP *:6969 (LISTEN)

This should be fixed :)

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Jean-Philippe (skateinmars) wrote :

I also think this is not a great idea to start a bittorrent tracker service by default

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Peter de Kraker (peterdekraker) wrote :

Yeah. I noticed something about that indeed.
I don't want a tracker by default.

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