HOWTO: Graphical IP Blocker

[uljanow]

On the first run i try to click the enable button. It asks if i want to update the lists. I say yes, and it hangs there for 10 minutes until i kill it.

If there were no error messages, it was probably still downloading.

Now everytime i run it, even after a reboot (!), when i click enable it shows an empty dialog. Actually all dialogs shown are empty.

Does this still occur after a successful update?

Also does it run at startup?

It doesn't start at boot. It can be done by adding "/usr/sbin/ipblock -s" to /etc/rc.local. But to use the GUI it would require to stop ipblock manually (sudo ipblock -d).

Do i have to keep the window open for it to block?

Yes. Running it in background can be done by using ipblock from the command-line (man 8 ipblock).

[MicroChris]

How do I uninstall this? I don't want it anymore..

[uljanow]

aptitude purge iplist

[NoSmokingBandit]

When i run it nothing happens. This is the terminal ouput:

steven@steven-desktop:~$ ipblock
error: You must be root to use ipblock
steven@steven-desktop:~$ sudo ipblock
steven@steven-desktop:~$

I do that and no windows or anything come up. The process doesnt show up in the system monitor either.

Edit:
Nevermind my problem. I'll just use the built-in ip blocker in deluge with the pg2 lists.

[uljanow]

sudo ipblock -h

This would show the available options.

[NoSmokingBandit]

steven@steven-desktop:~$ sudo ipblock -g
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(libgcj.so.81)
at java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(libgcj.so.81)
at org.ipblock.gui.ipblockUI.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libgtkpeer: libgtkpeer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.Runtime._load(libgcj.so.81)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.81)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.81)
at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit.<clinit>(libgcj.s o.81)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.81)
at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.81)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(libgcj.so.81)
...2 more
steven@steven-desktop:~$

...is what happens. I have no idea how to even start reading that...

[uljanow]

It looks like libgj is conflicting with sun's virtual machine (had a similar problem on Debian Etch). If you use sun's vm it is safe to remove gcj to fix this.

dpkg --list | grep gcj

This will show the version of gcj-<version>-base that can be removed.

aptitude remove gcj-<version>-base

[NoSmokingBandit]

aha! Runs perfect now. Thanks for the help!

[NoSmokingBandit]

Is anyone else unable to load the Level1 block list? I havent been able to get it the past few days :/

[kurotsuno]

installed it got it up and running but few questions.

I've managed to update the level1 list but when I run bit torrent I get no log reports of ips blocked.

Does this give you information in the graphic interface of ips that have been blocked simaler to peer guardian 2 ?

Also I have a custom list of ips I wish to add how do I go about that pg2 just took the text file but do I have to convert the file into a different file format other than txt for it to use it ?

Seems to work ok just want to get the best out of it.