# Got Disqualified from saltlake

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/got-disqualified-from-saltlake/14848>\
**Category:** troubleshooting\
**Tags:** disqualification\
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/got-disqualified-from-saltlake/14848 "2021-08-07T08:39:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexey](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/alexey/32/41_2.png) [@Alexey](https://forum.storj.io/u/Alexey)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/got-disqualified-from-saltlake/14848/12 "2021-08-07T17:52:34Z")

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These warns doesn’t lead to disqualification, you need to forward UDP port and that’s all

> [@Experimenting with UDP based protocols](https://forum.storj.io/t/experimenting-with-udp-based-protocols/11545):
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> Hi everyone, we are excited to inform you that we have been working on performance improvement in our network. One area that we have been exploring is UDP based transport protocols. For example, We have done some internal testing and have seen some good result from [QUIC](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-34) protocol. Now we would like to gather more realistic performance metrics with UDP based protocols. In order to do that, we want to ask you, our storage node operators, to update your port-forwarding rules to also include UDP tra…

> [@allenyllee](#):
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> `ERROR	piecestore	download failed ... use of closed network connection`

The client drop connection - your node in the long tail cancelation backlog.  
Nothing to worry about.

Please, temporary disable the port forwarding rule - you will see, how the real offline error is looks like.  
Then enable back.

It’s not related to disqualification though.

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