HOWTO: Graphical IP Blocker

[grossaffe]

I'll set up a mirror.

did anything ever come of this, because i haven't been able to update ipblock, and since i just downloaded it, that means i can't use it.

[uljanow]

Sourceforge.net seems to be down. So the update links don't work. You could manually download the lists [1] and copy them to /var/cache/iplist.

[1] http://iplist.sourceforge.net/mirror/

[grossaffe]

Sourceforge.net seems to be down. So the update links don't work. You could manually download the lists [1] and copy them to /var/cache/iplist.

[1] http://iplist.sourceforge.net/mirror/

ok, now when downloading from there, do i want to right-click and save link as? when i do that i'm saving a .gz.php. is that what i want or do i just want the .gz? if so, do i need to do anything to convert it or do i just remove the .php ending?

[uljanow]

Right-clicking and "save link as" should work. The ending .php should be removed. Alternatively:

cd /var/cache/iplist
sudo wget http://iplist.sf.net/mirror/level1.gz.php

[grossaffe]

thanks a bunch.

[lwpack]

Hello. Everytime I start the IPblock gui it freezes. It's working from the command line. I've tried completely removing it and then reinstalling it and it doesn't help. Not sure what to do. This just started yesterday and before that it was fine. I'm running Hardy. In case it helps:


lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$ egrep "iplist|ipblock" /var/log/syslog
May 5 08:42:12 lwpack-desktop iplist[14201]: error: no running iplist instance found
May 5 08:42:24 lwpack-desktop iplist[14230]: error: no running iplist instance found
May 5 08:43:10 lwpack-desktop ipblock[14256]: error: IPblock needs to be run as root
May 5 08:50:14 lwpack-desktop iplist[14719]: error: no running iplist instance found
May 5 08:50:22 lwpack-desktop iplist[14721]: error: can't send job to msq
May 5 08:50:46 lwpack-desktop iplist[14736]: error: no running iplist instance found
May 5 09:31:35 lwpack-desktop iplist[6660]: error: can't send job to msq
May 5 09:34:18 lwpack-desktop ipblock[6684]: error: IPblock needs to be run as root
May 5 10:19:20 lwpack-desktop iplist[7519]: error: can't find kill
May 5 10:19:35 lwpack-desktop iplist[7529]: error: no running iplist instance found
May 5 10:23:54 lwpack-desktop iplist[7986]: error: iplist needs to be run as root
May 5 10:24:11 lwpack-desktop ipblock[7989]: error: IPblock is not running
May 5 10:24:16 lwpack-desktop iplist[7995]: error: no running iplist instance found
May 5 10:24:33 lwpack-desktop iplist[8012]: error: iplist needs to be run as root
May 5 10:40:26 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8026]: error: IPblock needs to be run as root
May 5 10:50:42 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8323]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:53:13 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8416]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:54:00 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8494]: error: IPblock is not running
May 5 10:56:13 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8621]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:57:17 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8868]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:57:35 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8939]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:57:53 lwpack-desktop ipblock[8993]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:58:10 lwpack-desktop ipblock[9046]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:58:22 lwpack-desktop ipblock[9099]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 10:59:33 lwpack-desktop ipblock[9321]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 11:00:00 lwpack-desktop ipblock[9448]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 11:00:30 lwpack-desktop ipblock[9578]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 11:01:39 lwpack-desktop ipblock[9899]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
May 5 11:03:55 lwpack-desktop ipblock[10171]: error: failed to start, cleaning up
lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$ DEBUG=1 sudo ipblock -sl
Queue Policy (mark) Ranges Target (mark) File
255 REPEAT (65534) 316093 REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/level1.gz
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/level2.gz
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/dshield.txt
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/bogon.gz
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/edu.gz
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/spyware.gz
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/Microsoft.gz
REPEAT (65535) /media/NTFS/Documents/Blocklists/PeerGuardian/ads-trackers-and-bad-pr0n.gz

Chain BLOCK_MATCH (2 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 REJECT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with tcp-reset
0 0 REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

Last Updated Mon May 5 08:47:38 PDT 2008
Last log messages (/tmp/ipblock.log):
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=16 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=17 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=18 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=19 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=20 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=21 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=22 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=23 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:09:58 INPUT: Match=SafeNetinc Hits=24 Target=REPEAT SRC=38.100.26.120:6882 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=UDP
20:10:01 INPUT: Match=UniversityofPittsburgh Hits=2 Target=REPEAT SRC=130.49.6.130:2244 DST=192.168.1.64:35022 Proto=TCP
lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$

[uljanow]

Which java version are you using ("java -version") ? Are there any error messages if you start the GUI ("sudo ipblock -g") ?

[lwpack]

lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$ java -version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)

There are no errors when running sudo ipblock -g

The other thing I should mention is that the tabs Protection, Lists, Settings don't appear. The gui starts up completely frozen. I tried the java workaround in case that's what was causing it, but it didn't help. Thanks for the help.

[DJiNN]

I've just installed this app on Hardy (Xubuntu) & it's working fine. Easier to get going than MoBlock for me, and i really like the interface. Is it still being developed?

[uljanow]

lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$ java -version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)

gcj is not fully java compatible. You could try sun-java5-jre instead (Updating the default settings can be done with "sudo update-alternatives --config java").