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Seeing /announce reminded me of this:

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-users-ddos-websites-with...

Using DHT is also a particularly effective way of getting massive amounts of UDP traffic directed at you, which does not stop even after stopping the torrents. It subsides eventually, but can be quite irritating.



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