Syncthing MacOS connections to a lot of outside servers

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Syncthing MacOS connections to a lot of outside servers

joedima opened this issue 5 months ago · 2 comments

Why is Syncthing connecting to so many outside servers, like in countries that in countries I not have business connecting to?

Answer 1 · 2024-08-08T21:17:31.000Z

Please check https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#why-does-syncthing-connect-to-this-unknown-suspicious-address.

Answer 2 · 2024-08-11T13:53:57.000Z

@joedima when behind NAT P2P client/servers are unable to see each other except for opening ports at least on one side. In you case a secure relay server is used to proxy data behind double NAT. Yes you need to know some basics about networking. You could disable relaying with: Go to web UI (e.g 127.0.0.1:8384) -> Settings -> Connections -> Enable relaying, but this will break transfers.