Azureus, Safepeer & IP Filters

[drewy]

Just in case anyone didn't know, in later versions of azureus the use of the safepeer plugin has been terminated.

They now recommend you use azureus's built in IP Filters for the same purpose as safepeer. IP Filters is also meant to be less of a memory hog.

So to get IP Filters working with the azureus mod you need to do a little work....

You need ssl access to your 5200.
Login as sys.
Make sure the AZUR mod is not started.
and then:

cd /raid/data/module/AZUR/system/bin/azureus

/raid/data/module/AZUR/system/bin/jre/bin/java -jar /raid/data/module/AZUR/system/bin/azureus/Azureus2.jar --ui=console

this starts the azureus client in console mode, but with a command prompt so that you can issue commands and set parameters etc.

type:

set "Ip Filter Autoload File" "http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz" string
set "Ip Filter Enabled" true boolean
set "Ip Filter Enable Banning" true boolean
set "Ip Filter Banning Persistent" true boolean

and then:

quit

Then start up the AZUR mod. If you then:
cd /raid0/data/module/AZUR/system/bin/azureus/.azureus
ls -l

you should (soon) see the ipfilter.* files growing in size as azureus begins caching the ip filters.

That's it should then be working fine.

[flynn]

are these steps still necessary with the latest module? or after updating to Azureus 3.1.1.0?

I ask because the ipfilter.cache file was already > 0 before performing these steps, and when looking at the output of the azureus startup it looks like it was already set to autoload some files from bluetrack.

[jasonsmitters7384]

I just installed the latest module and managed to update to Azureus 3.1.1.0 as well. Ran through these instructions and noticed these while running Azureus in console mode:

Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level2.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/iana-multicast.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/iana-private.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/iana-reserved.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/fornonlancomputers.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/spider.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/spyware.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/bogon.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/Microsoft.zip
Retrieving data from: www.bluetack.co.uk/config/dshield.zip

This was before I had a chance to use the [ set "Ip Filter Autoload File" "http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz" string ] line, which leads to me assume this is all done automatically now.

Is there a way to test if the blocklists are working properly ?

I was thinking of pinging a site, then starting the app and pinging again to see if it'd stop. But then this blocklist doesn't work like PeerGuardian where it's system-wide, just within the Azureus app, so of course it'd keep pinging ...

I think this is the only thing keeping me from switching off uTorrent on my desktop, so I'd love to have this confirmed and be able to switch over !