Removing seeding tasks in qBittorrent suddenly triggers 'MacOS kernel' to receive incoming torrent traffic?

[hell0user]

Hi everyone,

I have been using a qBitorrent 4.4.2. on a Macbook Apple M1 with Monterey 12.1, now 12.3. I have 'Little Snitch' installed to keep an eye on traffic coming in- and out.

Since yesterday I noticed that after a few hours/days of 'seeding' an active torrent, whenever I delete these active seeding tasks out of my qBitTorrent and quit the program. It also happens when I just quit the qBitorrent client and not deleting any tasks. I immediately receive notification from 'Little Snitch' that a lot of external IP-addresses try to connect to MacOS Kernel. This has never happened before (using this for 3 months), but started since yesterday.

You might think, what has this to do with qBittorent?

What I noticed is that all of the external IP-addresses that were trying to make a connection with my MacOS Kernel were all using the same UDP port I assigned in qBittorrent. The request kept on coming seeing how the number keep growing in Little Snitch. Not sure, what I did, but after a certain time it stops receiving incoming requests.

I am under the impression that for some reason if I remove the tasks, all the peers looking for a seed (me), are trying to connect even if the tasks is not seeding, even existing, in my qBittorrent client.

Is anyone familiar with this issue, is this a bug? Hope someone brighter and more familiar with how this works could explain what is happening.

Thanks in advance!

PS: Placed screenshots for reference 3 of the 100+ connections I had yesterday/today.

[thalieht]

It's probably the DHT.

[hell0user]

Could you elaborate more, maybe on how to stop it going to MacOS Kernel. If that is the case.

UPDATE: Just tried disabling DHT Network. Does not seem to fix this issue.