Hi guys, I think I found a couple of IP's that should be on the list. I'm no networking expert by any means but I've recently been playing around with pfsense and logging the traffic coming from my windows 10 vm. I already removed/shutdown some other things before installing peerblock but these IP's are still going through. # settings-win.data.microsoft.com 111.221.29.253 # fe1.update.microsoft.com (or dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com.akadns.net according to some links on google) 65.55.138.112 65.55.54.43 can't find what this one resolves to. 111.221.29.174 is the background intelligent service so this is safe I think. Other than that I only see akamai and spynet ip's being contacted. PS. i'm only logging port 80/443. edit: wow okay, PB just borked itself. Tried adding those ip's to the original text file but that didn't work. Redownloaded the file and put it in PB but it just stopped blocking one IP that is one the list... made a additional list for my IP's but those aren't blocked either. Is there some kind of special magic required to make your own list? It seems pretty simple (apart from the weird wording in the interface) but it doesn't seem to work...
Does the paid subscription give you a list of only IPs? Peer-block doesn't boot before network connectivity is established so there is still some communications with the MS servers. Tried grep to filter the files but as I don't have experience with grep that isn't working too well. Doesn't help that all windows grep utilities seem to be rather s**te as well... simply saving output seems impossible on most software (because hey, why provide users with decent documentation).
For the life of me I've tried to look at both sides of this, even tried some of the blockers, ended up with y/n. So I made my decision on what would repair Windows 10 if it broke or needed repair, so if you try and block, forget sfc /scannow and DISM repair, there are so many things going out, stopping a few serves no purpose besides messing up your OS, I do not agree with the information gathering, but I do want a OS that works as it should, so shoot me (with BB gun), I'm leaving Windows 10 alone, it has other problems besides Sware
having problems with default list updating saying needs subscription. any one else having this trouble? Was working fine until a few days ago
Yes, I had that, too, but it seems inconsistent. Maybe a fluke, or multiple PB instances behind one router.
@agalipe1 Had same problem. Just uninstall and reinstall and it will reset counter for max free downloads.
I am not going to block anything but ads. I have read many posts in many forums, and the only people who have issues are the people who hog-tie windows with anti spyware programs. Then they cry and moan when windows doesn't work like it should, and say how evil MS is when they themselves are the ones who broke windows. This is the age of the cloud so we had better get used to internet communications. I have dreamed of this day since I bought my first computer umpteen years ago. Now, it is starting and you guys are crying! It doesn't make sense to me. I'm lovin' it!