@vaishaakb  I noticed this same activity after deploying to the latest version of CM and after deploying parcels in my Lab cluster.  I started getting P2P violations from my IDS and IPS. Is there any way to control the external p2p process?  I've gone ahead and attached screen captures from my firewall.  CDP - 7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p0.44702451 - CM - 7.11.3 Example of the detection: All 5 of my nodes repeatedly trying to talk across the globe.  ... View more