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[jere]

Hi all (especially gonosztopi)

I have a question about the compatibility of aMule's ipfilter.dat and PeerGuardian blocklists.

On blocklist.org, where you can download PeerGuardian blocklists, there are 3 versions available. Is aMule's ipfilter.dat compatible to all versions? (The wiki is not clear about this, so please tell me and I will tell Jacobo221).
I'd like to use a Version1 list (PeerGuardian plain text) which I created from some blocklist.org-lists.

I've tested it on two computers (one Debian stable and one Debian testing) with different results:

PeerGuardian tells me, that my list contains 83990 ranges and 2344303895 IPs

aMule 2.0.3 (dude's Debian stable package) tells me about 83000 IPs are filtered.

aMule CVS (20050913) (vollstrecker's Debian package) tells me 83979 ranges are filtered (11 malformed lines were discarded, but I think that's not a problem).

So I think in aMule CVS everything is working as I expected but I'm unsure about the stable (2.0.3) version. Are the whole ranges blocked or just the first IP of each range? In the changelog I couldn't find something relevant.

One example line from my ipfilter_static.dat:
Bogon:0.0.0.1-2.255.255.255

While the wiki/index.php/Ipfilter.dat_file gives me:
IPs range values are described by an initial IP a dash and the ending IP of tha range (the dash must be separated from the IPs by a single space character).
000.000.000.000 - 000.255.255.255 , 000 , "This" Network [RFC1700, page 4]

Is the syntax from the wiki the only one that is accepted by ipfilter.dat? It seems to me that at least in the CVS-version other syntaxes are also working.

Thank you for your good work and your reply
jere

[jere]

Hi again:
i think i should tell you the exact output:

aMule CVS using wxGTK2 v2.6.1 (Unicoded) (Snapshot: Thu Sep 15 07:02:04 CEST 2005) (OS: Linux):
Loaded 83979 IP-ranges from 'ipfilter_static.dat'. 11 malformed lines were discarded.

aMule 2.0.3 is running on the other end of the town, I will tell you as soon as possible the exact output, but it was something like:
New 83000 IPs loaded
It was definitely about IPs, not IP-Ranges

If you don't understand my question please tell me. This is the last thing I need to know to be really happy with aMule.

Greetings
jere

[ken]

jere, the log message in 2.0.3 is slightly inaccurate, but the actual behavior is what you would want/expect.  It is always ranges that are filtered, not individual IP addresses (unless, of course, a range covers just one IP address).

[jere]

Ah, thank you, now I'm happy ;-)
I added this to the wiki.
jere

[jere]

Hi all,
it seems as if the PeerGuardian Sites methlabs.org and blocklist.org were hijacked by a staff member.
Just look at http://methlabs.org/projects/ and also read the comment of the rest of the staff members at http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/.
Personally I don't believe the old official site, but that what you can read in sourceforge. They recommend not to use blocklists from methlabs and blocklist. I don't know who and what is affected by this, but I recommend to not use the lists from blocklist for the next time. I will also take them out of the wiki. (Damnit, my first post in the internet was on methlabs and my second here on amule, and now there is this cyber thriller.)
Let's hope that they will get their server back!
jere

[Jacobo221]

thanks a lot jere, and please keep informing about this if you get further news...

[lionel77]

Slyck.com is covering the story here.

[jere]

This is from peerguardian-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, so probably from those who can be trusted:

''PeerGuardian 2.0 Beta 6b has been released to reflect the recent
changes.  We recommend that you upgrade immediately to ensure your
privacy and safety.
PeerGuardian Home Page - http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net
PeerGuardian Forums - http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/forums''

Since I'm a Linux user and PeerGuardian 2 is a windows prog I can't tell you what they changed and if they are using their own lists again. Since the last release was before the hijacking the program is definitely not corrupted. It's only the lists that may be corrupted.
In Linux I'm actually using PeerGuardian 1.5 with those lists: http://bluetack.co.uk/config/sources.txt. They are also working directly in aMule as ipfilter.dat.

Greetings
jere

[jere]

The hijacking is over. The domains http://methlabs.org and http://blocklist.org now redirect to http://phoenixlabs.org.
Phoenixlabs is the new name of the Methlabs founders and developers. http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net also redirects to http://phoenixlabs.org.
See also the story Methlabs.org Ownership Restored at slyck.com.
At the moment you still have to use the bluetack lists, since blocklist.org is not yet set up again.
Greets
jere