I’m a fan of blocklists, I’ll admit. They’re not a perfect solution to blocking out unwanted IP addresses, but every little bit helps. Below I’ll show you how to use the Deluge Bit Torrent Client and Cron to ensure your blocklist stays up-to-date.
Many lovers of PeerGuardian are out there, and some just happen to use linux. Luckily we have bit torrent clients that support PeerGuardian blocklists directly in the client, rather than affecting our entire internet connection. This is a rather simple prodcedure in both cases of Ktorrent and Deluge.
Note: Blocklists are not a fool proof protection and can come with their own problems. Please read up on the effectiveness of blocklists. That being said, every little bit helps.
Have a network that you’d like to protect from macilious organizations? Well we’re in luck, now at the router level we can add peer guardian to ipcop based routers.
The install is rather simple, first thing first of course you must have Ipcop installed. Then grab ipcop-pglinux-1.5beta.zip from here.