TCP 6881
Synopsis
- TCP port 6881 is primarily used by the BitTorrent protocol for incoming peer connections.
- The original BitTorrent (Mainline) client listens on TCP ports 6881–6889 by default, starting with 6881.
- Vuze/Azureus commonly defaults to TCP 6881 for peer connections (though it’s configurable).
- Many rTorrent/ruTorrent setups and commercial seedboxes open TCP 6881 for torrent peer traffic, following the traditional BitTorrent port range.
- Blizzard’s Background Downloader used by World of Warcraft historically used TCP 6881–6999 (including 6881) to distribute game patches via BitTorrent.
- Due to ISP throttling historically targeting TCP 6881, many modern BitTorrent clients randomize their listening port, but 6881 remains widely recognized for BitTorrent.
Observed activity
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