could someone please post ip's to allow for windows update, windows defender and built in mail and other functional stuff that have to be connected to work. temporally disabling all ip's blocking is no good idea i guess, cos windows can detect that it can connect and all your privacy gone to win servers again. so i think list must allow some stuff and block all whats not esentall
With my new list I had no problems connecting to Windows Update, but I personally don't use Defender or Mail. Maybe you can just check what IP's are blocked when using Mail or similar stuff and make a ALLOW list (whitelist) for it.
okay got it. one newbie queston tho. what to do with txt file you share? i mean when view it in peer block there is no ip's or anything. any chance for instruction?
Blocking the IPs is pointless. Any large company doesn't have A server, they a have large distrbuted net of servers whith the ip changing depending on the region, and other things. Try to figure the ip of Google.com, just to mention one....
I wouldn't say that it's pointless as it does work really well. It's just difficult to manage and share a list that'll work for everyone. Windows 10 is always going to be an uphill battle as the OS is designed to be much more connected to the internet. Anyone who doesn't like that should downgrade or switch over to a Linux distro. I boot to a few OS's and can say that Windows 10 will never be my default OS.
iblocklist.com has a blocklist for search engines and the number of IP ranges contained for Google worldwide is huge. One of the reasons I use PeerBlock is to block Google (but allowing it when I choose to use one of their services). The list is effective. I don't see the search engine list posted on their site, for some reason, but here's the link and it's still regularly updated: Code: list.iblocklist.com/?list=pfefqteoxlfzopecdtyw&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz Open PeerBlock, click List Manager, click Add, click Add File, click Browse and find the file you downloaded from thorin0815, click Open, then OK, then close List Manager. Those IP ranges will then be added to the blocked list.
well i know how to import lists in peer block. what i was saying list does not contain any ip in it. when view Thorin0815 list in perblock (after importing it) its empty. if view any other list they all contain ip's in them. was asking what to do with it cos its emty, tough need to rename or something like that anyway i got it imported and my blocklog is empty nothing gets blocked except some of comodo ip's
i just redownloaded list from link you provided and its nothing similar to what you posted. for me its more look like its some kinda body mod for game not ip list anyway tnx for posting your list, i copied it and now im happy but check link tho maybe thers something went wrong
I downloaded my own list from the link in the starting post and everything is normal, it is a normal text file.
Agreed, the link is valid. I used it and just copied the text file into the message I posted. Can't imagine what the problem could have been for Emulators.
thats weird cos for me link works and file name is Telemetry_revised.txt but contents of file is diferent. and i canot post an image to or link to image, too newbie around yet
What is not clear for me is why and how peerblock intercepts also traffic from my other devices in LAN. My laptop (where I installed peerblock) is connected to the same switch and with the same ip address range of the other devices like Samsung TV, Decoder MySKY, MediaPlayer, etc. In the log I see block session from these devices coming from "IANA -Private-Use Networks [RFC1918]". Ok, I can disable it from list, but I'm just curious how PeerBlock can log activity from other devices in the network.
Because every device on your network has to talk to each other to stay connected and carry out tasks, etc. You're just seeing normal network traffic. IANA - private-use networks just means packets designed for a normal private network (yours). Google is your friend.
You're right, my bad. I thought I had seen traffic from devices contacting addresses outside my network. Now I enabled the "allow log" feature and seen that most of "internal" devices traffic is for netbios (udp 137) and upnp service (udp 1900). So, talk to each other is absolutely normal!
AFAIK you can't download the iBlocklist as text as that could circumvent their "download 1x per week as free user" rule.