Firewall Blacklist Warning

[LordValrest]

So, I was reading manga, specifically this one here https://mangadex.org/title/40472/tearmoon-empire-story And on Chapter 5 and only Chapter 5 my AVG firewall flared up with this "dxaek8eghsq5t.gwq775qyssq0j.mangadex.network" saying the connection was aborted as it was blacklisted by them. I have no doubt there wasn't anything malicious going on, but I found it strange that it happened at all and only on that chapter.

 

[Halo]

@LordValrest
https://mangadex.org/thread/299998

 

[firelight]

And in case you're wondering why it's connecting to that domain, it's because of MangaDex@Home which loads some images from a peer-to-peer network to reduce MangaDex's bandwidth usage.
https://mangadex.org/md_at_home

MangaDex@Home is a P2P (peer-to-peer) system where users will be able to volunteer the usage of either their personal computers or servers to act as cache server nodes to alleviate the stress on our own cache servers. Over time, we envisage that the majority, if not all, of the older chapters will be served by MangaDex@Home.

You will be hosting a client that acts as a P2P system for older chapters. Basically, your machine will act as a server where a tiny portion of older MangaDex chapters will be stored and when a reader wants to read an older chapter, it will be "fetched" from your machine and served to the reader. If you're familiar with torrenting, it is very similar: torrents work by sharing parts of the whole file to other torrent clients in order to ensure download stability and faster speeds.