Massive amount of packets blocked by firewall

Security and Privacy
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Hi.

Not sure when this started exactly but I notice a large amount of blocked packages in my firewall logs, which seem to be related to Jami.

At peak I sometimes see about 50 similar packets blocked within a single second.

The protocol is UDP, the destination port seems to depend on the device where Jami is started on, length of the packet is 89 bytes, and the most prominent source IPs are hosts like 141.94.96.2 (dhtproxy.jami.net) and 198.27.75.12 (dhtproxy3.jami.net).

Is this an expected behaviour?

Thanks

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After testing a lot I found the cause of the problem.

In “settings” → “account” → “extended settings” there is a checkbox “enable proxy” which is turned off by default on Windows and Android devices. If you enable it, the problem is gone.

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Should this problem and solution be added to the following FAQ on the Jami documentation page?