Registered · Cross-platform

6771 BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery

TCP Unofficial
UDP Unofficial
SCTP
DCCP

What it is

LAN peer discovery for BitTorrent.

When / why

P2P LAN acceleration.

Protocol status detail

TransportStatusMeaning
TCP Unofficial Not assigned by IANA, but standardized, specified, or widely used on this port.
UDP Unofficial Not assigned by IANA, but standardized, specified, or widely used on this port.
SCTP Not applicable for this transport.
DCCP Not applicable for this transport.

Port range

Registered (1024–49151). Assigned by IANA on request; usable without elevated privileges on most systems.

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Firewall rules for port 6771

Copy-ready inbound rules for the active transports. Replace every <source> placeholder with the specific host, subnet, or CIDR that should reach this port.

ufw

sudo ufw allow proto tcp from <source> to any port 6771

Allow TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Replace <source> with the network/host that should reach it.

sudo ufw allow proto udp from <source> to any port 6771

Allow UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Replace <source> with the network/host that should reach it.

firewalld

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="<source>" port port="6771" protocol="tcp" accept'

Allow TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery) from <source>. Run 'firewall-cmd --reload' afterwards.

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="<source>" port port="6771" protocol="udp" accept'

Allow UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery) from <source>. Run 'firewall-cmd --reload' afterwards.

nftables

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr <source> tcp dport 6771 accept

Allow TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Assumes table 'inet filter' with an 'input' chain.

nft add rule inet filter input ip saddr <source> udp dport 6771 accept

Allow UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Assumes table 'inet filter' with an 'input' chain.

iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s <source> --dport 6771 -j ACCEPT

Allow TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Persist with iptables-save/netfilter-persistent.

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p udp -s <source> --dport 6771 -j ACCEPT

Allow UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Persist with iptables-save/netfilter-persistent.

Azure NSG

az network nsg rule create -g <resource-group> --nsg-name <nsg> -n Allow-bittorrentlocalpeerdisco-6771 --priority 1000 --access Allow --direction Inbound --protocol "*" --source-address-prefixes <source> --destination-port-ranges 6771

Inbound rule for 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Set <source> to a CIDR; lower priority number = higher precedence.

AWS Security Group

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id <sg-id> --ip-permissions IpProtocol=tcp,FromPort=6771,ToPort=6771,IpRanges="[{CidrIp=<source-cidr>}]"

Inbound TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Replace <source-cidr> (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16).

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id <sg-id> --ip-permissions IpProtocol=udp,FromPort=6771,ToPort=6771,IpRanges="[{CidrIp=<source-cidr>}]"

Inbound UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Replace <source-cidr> (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16).

GCP firewall

gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-bittorrentlocalpeerdisco-6771 --direction=INGRESS --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:6771,udp:6771 --source-ranges=<source-cidr> --network=<network>

Ingress rule for 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Scope with --source-ranges and optionally --target-tags.

Windows netsh

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery 6771/TCP" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=6771 remoteip=<source>

Inbound TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Set remoteip to a host/subnet; 'any' is discouraged.

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Allow BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery 6771/UDP" dir=in action=allow protocol=UDP localport=6771 remoteip=<source>

Inbound UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Set remoteip to a host/subnet; 'any' is discouraged.

Windows PowerShell

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery 6771/TCP" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol TCP -LocalPort 6771 -RemoteAddress <source>

Inbound TCP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Replace <source> with a host or subnet.

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery 6771/UDP" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -Protocol UDP -LocalPort 6771 -RemoteAddress <source>

Inbound UDP 6771 (BitTorrent Local Peer Discovery). Replace <source> with a host or subnet.

Rules are generated only for transports marked active for this port. They default to an inbound allow with an explicit source placeholder — never any. Review direction, scope, and rule precedence before applying in production.