New Transmission 2.84 add-on for ReadyNAS Duo/NV+ (sparc)

i'm in trouble! i have a few problems after upgrading to 2.82 and readynas 4.1.13.

1) I can't seem to get readynas to go through my router. I've open the port on the router (dir-655) I can confirm it is open when i point it to my laptop. I can confirm that the port is open on the readynas (netstat -a | grep 61688) but it always shows as closed on transmission. I don't see any mention on the log (using --logfile) this is what it looks like at startup:

Question: any advice on how I can debug this? I've spent hours on it :'(

bau:/etc/frontview/addons/bin/TRANSMISSION# cat /var/tmp/transmission.log
[19:13:57.025] Transmission 2.82 (14160) started (session.c:738)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: * (rpc-server.c:828)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on port 127.0.0.1:8181/transmission/ (rpc-server.c:1035)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Whitelist enabled (rpc-server.c:1039)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Password required (rpc-server.c:1042)
[19:13:57.026] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:183)
[19:13:57.027] DHT Generating new id (tr-dht.c:310)
[19:13:57.027] Using settings from "/c/addons-config/Transmission" (daemon.c:526)
[19:13:57.027] Saved "/c/addons-config/Transmission/settings.json" (variant.c:1217)
[19:13:57.027] transmission-daemon requiring authentication (daemon.c:546)
bau:/etc/frontview/addons/bin/TRANSMISSION# cat /var/tmp/transmission.log
[19:13:57.025] Transmission 2.82 (14160) started (session.c:738)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Adding address to whitelist: * (rpc-server.c:828)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Serving RPC and Web requests on port 127.0.0.1:8181/transmission/ (rpc-server.c:1035)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Whitelist enabled (rpc-server.c:1039)
[19:13:57.026] RPC Server Password required (rpc-server.c:1042)
[19:13:57.026] Port Forwarding Stopped (port-forwarding.c:183)
[19:13:57.027] DHT Generating new id (tr-dht.c:310)
[19:13:57.027] Using settings from "/c/addons-config/Transmission" (daemon.c:526)
[19:13:57.027] Saved "/c/addons-config/Transmission/settings.json" (variant.c:1217)
[19:13:57.027] transmission-daemon requiring authentication (daemon.c:546)

2) are blocklists disabled on 2.82? This is the url I have but it always says there are zero rules, used to work on 2.42

"blocklist-enabled": true,
    "blocklist-url": "http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1",
    "cache-size-mb": 200,

I have an NV+ with 1GB of ram, upgraded by removing 2.42, installing 2.82 (thanks for building it!!!) and then moving my settings.json to 2.82. Everything seems to work fine except (1) I can't get through the firewall (2) blocklists don't seem to work (obviously not as important as (1))