Problem with ipfilter.dat

[saturday]

So, I'm not very familiar with the workings of the computer, but I need to ban an IP address who keeps sending corrupted data (67.182.109.9). I understand that I need to create a 'ipfilter.dat' file in the utorrent folder (and I did). Do I just put the ip address in the file and save, and utorrent will ban the user?

I did that, and restarted utorrent.. but I'm still downloading from the user... I also made sure that ipfilter.enable is set to true. What's wrong?!

Thanks for your time~

[torrero]

Do you have the message ipfilter.dat loaded (in Logger tab)?

Set ipfilter.enable to false, then apply and re-enable it to true.

Otherwise, there are a lot of good ipfilter.dat available on the tracker sites. just search. e.g. http://isohunt.com/torrents/?ihq=ipfilter

[jewelisheaven]

uTorrent auto-bans hashfailing clients. Make sure you have Ctrl-P -> Advanced bt.use_ban_ratio = TRUE, and if a client exceeds bt.ban_threshold within bt.ban_ratio pieces they are auto banned.

[saturday]

Thank you both. Um... the message ipfilter.dat loaded did not show up, even after I changed ipfilter.enable to false and back again.

In the Logger, it says that the ip address has been banned, but I still see it in my peers list.