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Stability

  • Version 2.2.3-0.pm.4 (i586) + limit 30kB up/200kB down is stable

Firewall

  • !!! there is 3 ports to open: TCP 4911, UDP 4672, UDP 4914 (=standard TCP+3)
    • With default TCP 4662 (and UDP 4665), eD2k works well, but can't connect to Kad and/or aMule always says Firewalled.
    • → Changed to TCP 4911 / UDP 4914 (TCP+3).
    • Configured ADSL box to forward all ports 4500-4999 (TCP+UDP) to my machine.
  • Some reference pages:

Privacy

There are several solutions for blocking access to "bad" peers (bogus peers, malware distribution, snooping peers from governmental and copyright organizations):

  • iplist
    Last release from 2010.
  • peerguardian
    • peerguardian has been replaced by peerblock, but this version is only available on windows
    • The homepage seems outdated (many dead links), but the forum is still active.
    • Project page on Sourceforge, seems up-to-date. Contains the source.
    • last linux release here (2011). The binary package is called "moblock-deb"
  • peerblock, the new version of peerguardian on windows...
  • moblock-deb
    • The latest version of peerguardian 2 for linux (same maintainer as peerguardian, called jre)
  • MoBlock
  • Moblocker
    • Gui for moblock


On the effectiveness of blocking lists:

MoBlock

moblock-deb

# lucid
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jre-phoenix/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jre-phoenix/ppa/ubuntu lucid main
# maverick
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jre-phoenix/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jre-phoenix/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
  • Add the key to the key ring:
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 9C0042C8
gpg --export --armor 9C0042C8 | sudo apt-key add -

iplist

Installation

  • On Ubuntu:
    • There is an apt repository. Add a file iplist.list in directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d):
    • deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ssakar/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
      deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ssakar/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
      
    • Import the package key and install the package:
    • sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C6E3D905C8BCD56BB02E6E0B39456311108B243F
      sudo apt-get install iplist
      
  • On other distributions:
    • Download required netfilter packages from Netfilter page
    • Download iplist from IPList page.
    • First build libnfnetlink:
    • tar -xvfj libnfnetlink-0.0.39.tar.bz2
      cd libnfnetlink-0.0.39
      ./configure --prefix=/usr              # install libs in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib
      make
      sudo make install
      
    • Then build libnetfilter_queue:
    • tar -xvfj libnetfilter_queue-0.0.16.tar.bz2
      cd libnetfilter_queue-0.0.16
      ./configure --prefix=/usr              # install libs in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib
      make
      sudo make install
      
    • Finally, install iplist, but ignore dependencies:
    • sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps iplist-0.22-0.suse11.i586.rpm
      

    Configuration

    Following the recommendation on this post:

    • Copy the default configuration files:
    cp /usr/share/doc/iplist/examples/ipblock.lists /etc
    cp /usr/share/doc/iplist/examples/ipblock.conf /etc
    
    • Edit the list file, and replace the bluetack.co.uk entries with those from iblocklist, which are updated more often.
    vim /etc/ipblock.lists
    

    Usage

    • Type sudo DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/sbin/ipblock -g to start the GUI. At first boot, it will creates the rc.d entry.
    • Type sudo /usr/sbin/ipblock -s& to start blocking.
    • Configuration file is at /etc/ipblock.conf. All lists URL is at /etc/ipblock.list.

    Troubleshoot

    • If like me, your dhcp server gives you an address in the range 172.19.xxx.yyy, all internet connections will be blocked by iplist. To prevent this, an easy (but heavy) workaround is simply to remove list bogon.gz.

    Netfilter