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When I run the qBittorrent client with active torrents, my connection status icon goes green, even if I haven't forwarded the proper incoming connection port through the VPN. If I set a listening port in qBittorrent, then I connect to AirVPN, and I haven't forwarded the listening port through AirVPN, then how can outside clients still connect to me? The fact that my client is connectable even though I haven't forwarded the proper port makes me worried that I'm somehow sending/receiving traffic outside the VPN. Here's the process I went through to check this, which was reproducible with other port numbers: Initially, I setup port forwarding and qBittorrent as explained in this post. On the AirVPN site client area, I added port 36720 in Client Area > Forwarded Ports (both TCP & UDP, same local port). Then I went into qBittorrent Options > Connection and set the "Listening Port" to 36720 as well. I ran qBittorrent, and the connection status icon went green, as expected. I confirmed that I could receive outside connections on port 36720 by using the "TCP Test" check in the AirVPN forwarded ports section. I also went to CanYouSeeMe.org and verified that I was connectable on port 36720. Then, without changing anything else, I changed the listening port in qBittorrent to a random port, 45418. I restarted qBittorrent, and much to my surprise, after a few moments, the connection status icon went green again! It seems to take longer to switch from yellow to green when I use an unforwarded port, but it always goes to green eventually. According to CanYouSeeMe.org, I was not connectable on port 45418, yet qBittorrent reported that it was receiving connections. I went over all the settings in qBittorrent I could think of that might cause it to make connections outside the VPN: UPnP/NAT-PMP was disabledDHT, PeX, and local peer discovery were disabled.In Options > Advanced, I set the network interface to my VPN interface, which I confirmed with ipconfig.Am I missing something? I tried connecting to a different AirVPN server with the same results. As I said, this has me paranoid that I'm "leaking" traffic outside the VPN connection. I'm using qBittorrent version 3.3.12. Am I misunderstanding what the green connection status icon means? For the record, this is the icon I'm talking about: Apologies for the long post, but I wanted to be thorough. If anyone could shed some light on this mystery, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance!