LighTer Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 ok guys im starting to be a little suspicious about this client now.i use bc and pg2 on a specific torrent and BOOM its blocking lots of ips and all.so i use same torrent on utorrent and pg2 and BLANK, it doesnt zap any ips at all. so what is the deal and the story behind this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Or maybe you should be suspicious of the other client that's trying to connect to those blocked IPs? I seriously doubt that µTorrent would try to circumvent the "protection" that PG2 provides (and it would probably be a tad bit difficult to do so, since the packets are blocked at the kernel-driver level).I don't know what else to say -- I don't use PG2 (or any other IP-range blocking utility). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Or maybe you should be suspicious of the other client that's trying to connect to those blocked IPs? I seriously doubt that µTorrent would try to circumvent the "protection" that PG2 provides (and it would probably be a tad bit difficult to do so, since the packets are blocked at the kernel-driver level).I don't know what else to say -- I don't use PG2 (or any other IP-range blocking utility).is it chinese ip's? because their has been rumors that bitcomet tries to connect to ips that belongs to ranges known to be used by chinese spammers/hackers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodStaindHurricane Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 PG2 has a blank window simply b/c it has NOT blocked anything yet. It's a rock-solid program and will do its job. If you feel unsure, enable "Block HTTP" in PG2 and try to visit a site that would be blocked(RIAA, MPAA, etc). If you have those entries appear in your PG2 window and those sites are infact blocked, then PG2 is working.boo has a very good point. While running BitComet, you will get tons of blocked entries(Chinanet, China..., etc) within PG2 ...which is not the case while running utorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 boo has a very good point. While running BitComet, you will get tons of blocked entries(Chinanet, China..., etc) within PG2 ...which is not the case while running utorrent.Thats true.. Utorrent comes as a clean sftware.. I got same prbs with bitcomet.. For max security if u want to, u can enable the extra Urls for bluetak in Pg2.. :twisted: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LighTer Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 i got bluetack lists. and yews pg2 works, but using utorrent it pics up nothing abd then over on BC it gets loads of crap. some china crap but also sbc private customer (sbc is my isp) and also time warner and crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 I have PG2 I never get china stuff, but I do get sbc private customer (sbc is my isp as well) and timewarner from time to time too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 hmmmm I just tryed to update PG2 and it failed!! The site is down to!!http://peerguardian.methlabs.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PegasusX Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Their having some DNS issues, thats all.You can still download their stuff from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131687&package_id=144501&release_id=357471 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bontoogobeanso Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I'm not sure that you want to download anything from Methlabs. The last I heard, they had been hijacked, then disbanded and reorganized as Phoenix Labs. http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=913http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=929The Phoenix Labs site is currently under construction. I just started an update of my PG2, but it was downloading something from Methlabs, so I cancelled it. Don't know if it's safe or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Their domain is currently redirected or the site is down or something... in the meantime, you can still get to their sourceforge page.http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 heh, notice that you guys doesn't follow the news, meth and d3f got the domains etc back from cerb and that was like 3-4 weeks ago. If you download pg2 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian then you're ok.The site, phoenixlabs.org (after meth and d3f got the domains back, they had those domain to redirect people to the new domain), is down because of DNS problems. Which should be fixed in a few days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criscr0ss Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 the site had not been hacked it was simply a mis understanding it was fixed and sorted within a day. Also PG is wrkn fine for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 got an update one the DNS issue.Somone had sent incredible amount of DNS queries, so the company that handles phoenixlabs domain, cut them off.D3F says its fixed and in about 24 hours, the site should be back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winMX_67 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Methlabs hasnt been up for a while. There new domain is http://www.phoenixlabs.org which is currently having problems, but will be fixed soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boo Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 heh, nice, both mainsite + forum is up again but you needed to refresh in FF to be able to see it :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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