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just make sure it's not your own exit IP (whether real IP or VPN exit IP) 🤣 there have been sightings of oddball servers that would mirror the exact traffic back to you. purpose: unknown. this would look really like your counterpart with the same port tried to connect to you. Try to write down IPs to see if a pattern emerges. Is it a small range of addresses (first half of IPv6, entire address for IPv4 accounting) or a broad range? Do they belong to the same ISP or hosting? relax, stop over reacting, stop micromanaging and get used to it, because that's how the internet is supposed to work on a technical level 1. IPv4 and IPv6 are separate and independent networks. Your client is correct to treat them as if one doesn't know about the other 2. IPv6 hosts (peers) will often have at least two addresses assigned through no fault of their own. Your client is correct again to treat them separately as if they were independent but equal. The above is correct on a technical level. The world won't get better if you start handing out manual bans to more fairly redistribute the upload bandwidth. The world will get better if more people contribute to uploading with more bandwidth. You wanted an answer, right? The answer is: the bittorrent client could try to deduplicate peers across different logical networks only for the limited upload speed to be more fairly distributed across currently connected peers. Why isn't it being done? It's impossible and/or very hard and/or unnecessary. How many CPU cycles does a program need to dedicate to scanning all details between all peers for deduplication to avoid the bandwidth advantage of (Number IP addresses * 1/number total peer connections)? The difference is 1/n in most cases. While it's apparent to you that a peer is the same over multiple addresses, to a program it is not. How do you avoid banning all of a real peer's addresses, when the remaining one drops completely for example? Like IPv4+IPv6 were working and connected, IPv4 was banned by you. But then the peer drops out, because IPv6 stopped working on their end. Do you lift the ban by retrying (wasting packets, CPU cycles and energy?). The solution asks for heuristics and for a computer and programmer it's muddy waters. Why spend time and effort to begin with? I have spent more effort than necessary by explaining this, but I wouldn't convince you otherwise, because you act on emotion of righteousness... understandable. unless you understand how futile your manual effort is. I don't mean to sound condescending, but the protocol works the way it does. It is what it is. And the person on the other end is not evil or responsible for how it works. At the planetary scale the solution is more seeding. Just keep seeding when you can. That's all, folks!

Loving these new speedy servers! Would love to see some upgrades to the 2 overworked connections in Montreal.