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Blocking peers in uTorrent
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Veggie Fridge
Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:59 pm Posts: 21656 Location: Fuck You! GoodBye!
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Blocking peers in uTorrent
Thought this info might be usefull for others aswell so here goes, I noticed a peer in my bittorent client that had [FAKE] infront of the uses client, asked around on the forum where I grabbed the torrent and I got told I should (at least) block him cause the chances we're big it was a 'ghost' leecher. I found the following tutorial on the internet and it worked like a charm for me: http://www.techzilo.com/how-to-ban-peer ... -utorrent/Basicly it comes down to this: Quote: Excessive leeching by peers is one of the biggest problems when using BitTorrent. One more thing to look out for is selfish and cheating BitTorrent clients like BitComet which limits uploads severely, and BitThief, which does not upload anything. Both of these problems can be solved by blocking offensive peers.
Note that this blocking is effective for the IP address, which means that blocking a peer in one torrent will block it out from everything else. IP address blocking should not be misused because it can hurt the torrent health, and ultimately lead to slower or dead torrents if used improperly.
In this tutorial, we describe how to block IP addresses in uTorrent, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients. 1) Go to Options > Preferences (or hit Ctrl+P), go to Advanced tab and scroll down to ipfilter.enable, click on it and set it to true. Click OK to exit preferences window.
2) Find and click once the torrent, and click the Peers tab. Right-click anywhere inside the Peers tab and uncheck ?Resolve IPs?. So, all peers will be listed by their IP address alone, which is what we need.
3) Open a Notepad window and manually type in any IP address that you wish to block.
4) Save the Notepad window (with the IP addresses) as ipfilter.dat The location for saving the file should be C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMEApplication DatauTorrent, where USERNAME is the user name of your system account. If you have installed Windows in a different drive, change C: accordingly.
5) Go back to uTorrent, click the any torrent, go to the Peers tab, right-click and click ?Reload IP filter?.
Note) If you need to block more IP addresses later, open ipfilter.dat, add the IP addresses, save the file, then go to uTorrent, click any torrent, go to its Peers tab, right click and click ?Reload IP filter?.
If you do not want the hassle of going through all these steps, you could use an alternative client that provides easy IP blocking, but that means you would not be able to use uTorrent.
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Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:40 pm |
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GRiND
Sabrina the Witch
Joined: Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:41 pm Posts: 4800 Location: Metalchussetts, The Altered State of Druggachussetts
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
nice little tut... but are you sure you meant "(including the quotes)"?
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:44 pm |
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Veggie Fridge
Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:59 pm Posts: 21656 Location: Fuck You! GoodBye!
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
You mean the quote in the above post? Maybe I should move it up a but but yeah that was a decision I made since they put it up I'd reckon i'd post their shit aswell
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:47 pm |
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GRiND
Sabrina the Witch
Joined: Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:41 pm Posts: 4800 Location: Metalchussetts, The Altered State of Druggachussetts
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
No I mean what I said.
Its says (and I quote):
4) Save the Notepad window (with the IP addresses) as ?ipfilter.dat? (including the quotes).
is that right or is it excluding the quotes? a filename with quotes seems wrong.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:02 pm |
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gav616
Mr. TightAss
Joined: Mon May 21, 2007 1:20 am Posts: 3007
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
**blocks GRiND for no apparent reason**
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:42 pm |
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Veggie Fridge
Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:59 pm Posts: 21656 Location: Fuck You! GoodBye!
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
@GRiND, you're right didn't know you we're talking about those quotationmarks, *removed them*
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:42 pm |
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Vae Victis
Anal Muffin
Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:27 am Posts: 6147
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
what quotes are you talking about?
_________________ Got milk?
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:44 pm |
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Veggie Fridge
Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:59 pm Posts: 21656 Location: Fuck You! GoodBye!
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
It stated to include the quotes when saving the ipfilter.dat ("ipfilter.dat")
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:48 pm |
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Vae Victis
Anal Muffin
Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:27 am Posts: 6147
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
_________________ Got milk?
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:53 pm |
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Veggie Fridge
Joined: Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:59 pm Posts: 21656 Location: Fuck You! GoodBye!
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
Those damn pink elephants always eat my veggies
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:30 pm |
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GRiND
Sabrina the Witch
Joined: Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:41 pm Posts: 4800 Location: Metalchussetts, The Altered State of Druggachussetts
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Re: Blocking peers in uTorrent
gav616 wrote: **blocks GRiND for no apparent reason** your loss
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Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:40 pm |
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