Comment by ValentineC
7 hours ago
Looking forward to it being whitelisted on trackers!
I've had to hold off upgrading my 4.0.5 installation to 4.0.6 because it was banned on some trackers [1][2].
[1] https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/7568#iss...
[2] https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/7078
curious why was it banned? it's doing sth malicious?
Transmission version 4.0.6 is widely banned by private and public BitTorrent trackers due to a critical bug in its announce logic, which causes it to overwhelm trackers with excessive requests (a "hammering" or DDoS-like effect). This issue arises particularly when IPv6 is disabled or unavailable, causing the client to loop rapidly.