If most traffic is inbound, I would say Carey does not have any filesharing issues, but auto update issues: the IP addresses most accessed are mostly for CDN providers, the ones used for hosting update packages. Auto updates will take a lot of traffic, especially snaps. They take a lot of space, and usually when one is updated because of a library issue, you can count on several others having the same library to release updates too.
If most of this traffic is outbound, then we have a different history and something is really sending a lot of data outside. And if the traffic is more or less balanced, it's a proxy, torrent, or Tor node running.

How to know? There are some programs for that: iftop, iptraf, nethogs and bmon are easy to use and powerful.

Mauro
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
William Park via Talk said on Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:03:56 -0400

>On 2025-09-24 00:44, Steve Litt via Talk wrote:
>> Carey, I'm not an authority, but as far as I know, this kind of usage
>> comes from unauthorized servers. The way you stop unauthorized
>> servers dead in their tracks is to set your firewall so your only
>> servers that can hit the Internet are on port 21 (ssh). And if you
>> don't ssh into your Linux box, then set your firewall to block port
>> 21 also.


>That will block incoming connections.  OP's problem of outgoing
>connections still remains.

Firewalls can be used to block both outgoing and incoming.

Now if you mean that Carey is purposefully accessing a client to a
server that sends him tons of stuff, that's a different matter and the
solution is to quit using that server.

SteveT

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