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[pyrotech]

I\'ve switched from Bit Lord to Azureus as I could not get BL to seed to DC. All appears okay and I\'ve now started sharing in begineer mode after redownloading the tracker \"headers\"!.  

However despite opening a specific UDP port in my firewall and router Azureus still shows a DHT warning in the lower info bar as a NAT/Firewall problem.

Is DHT and UDP at some point essential to good running, or can I just close off these ports and run with TCP.  I\'m running in beginner mode because were Torrents are concerned it best decribes me.

[kirky]

It may be that you need to Port Forward those ports to your internal machine, not just allow them.

I\'m running a LEAF Bering box, and I have forwarded the appropriate TCP and UDP traffic for Azureus to my machine.

[Mr. Fusion]

Eh, you can disable DHT if you like, it makes little difference unless you\'re trying to download \"trackerless\" torrents.  

Technically speaking, DHT  makes every client basically its own tracker, in a sense.  (For instance, if a regular tracker goes down or if there isn\'t one at all, you can still keep downloading the files.

TorrentSpy has a great page on trackerless torrents if you want to know more.

To disable it in Azureus, goto Tools -> Options and select Connection. Under the Peer Sources table, uncheck everything except \"From a tracker\".  This should resolve those pesky messages from popping up.

[pyrotech]

Thanks Gents, it seemed to resolve itself, but shows 700,000 plus users?.  So I think I\'ll disable it.