Phantom connections

[vexxor]

After halting the deluge client (through the CLI with the "halt" command) i still have a fair amount of connections to my torrent port. I checked my computer from the outside (http://www.ping.eu), and the ports i use for torrents are closed. However the connections that seem to be coming in, are already established and they seem to take only a little bit of bandwith, although there is a fair amount of them. I verified these connections are real with tcpdump.

How is this possible? Is this a deluge thing? An OS thing? (seems less probable, i'm on Arch linux for informations sake) A general networking thing?

After reseting my router, the connections were gone. Can anybody explain?

[Ubulindy]

After halting the deluge client (through the CLI with the "halt" command) i still have a fair amount of connections to my torrent port. I checked my computer from the outside (http://www.ping.eu), and the ports i use for torrents are closed. However the connections that seem to be coming in, are already established and they seem to take only a little bit of bandwith, although there is a fair amount of them. I verified these connections are real with tcpdump.

How is this possible? Is this a deluge thing? An OS thing? (seems less probable, i'm on Arch linux for informations sake) A general networking thing?

After reseting my router, the connections were gone. Can anybody explain?

I have been doing this a long time, so, this is nothing to be concerned about. After you close down Deluge, or, any other client, yes, you will have some IPs that linger. If you MUST get rid of these, either re-boot the router, or your machine. Just because you have disconnected, the peers havent. No worry. You may show activity of 1-2 kbs, thats it. Slowly but surely, one by one, if you do nothing at all, they will drop off. Just like, if you started another torrents, deleted the first, you may still have leechers wanting that file that you had deleted. They still may be connected or trying to get pieces from you, hence some blocked connections in your firewall. Again, not to worry. They drop off as well, and until they do, are simply blocked, bcs you no longer have that file.