Thread: How do I use rTorrent + Blacklist on centos?

I've done some searching around, and just can't seem to find either a good writeup, or even some good suggestions on tools to use. However knowing how good the community is here, I figured I'd ask the question, and see what kind of response I get.



I currently have a headless box setup with rTorrent+rutorrent setup using this forum post, running on CentOS 5.6. I'd like to install some type of block/black list software similar to peerguardian2 that I was running when I used Windows / utorrent.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

There are many ways to do this. You might want to look into DansGuardian or Squidguard. Personally, I'd just use an IPTables blacklist. If you do a Google search with these keywords, you should find what you need.

Or perhaps another reader will jump in with more info or a tutorial at hand.

Since I'm using IPTables already, that would seem to make the most sense.

Let me see what I can find.

Iptables is very powerful. Here are two bookmarks on basic usage:
iptables basics ... A basic script to parse a block list

The principle is pretty simple.. e.g.

Lets create some chains; BLACKLIST and LOGDROP. The latter because I like to have a log of what is blocked. Then specify something to be blocked. That's it, done, pay the piper. The first link above will give you are more detailed description if you are new to iptables.

Of course you probably want to block a long list of addresses, so a script to parse those is useful. Google should pull up all kinds of pre-formatted block lists and scripts to parse them with to give you the equivalent of what you were using before.

iptables -N BLACKLIST
iptables -N LOGDROP
iptables -A BLACKLIST -s insert_source_IP_to_be_blocked_here -j LOGDROP



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Thanks for the information. I'm working on testing that out, and I'll let you know how it goes.

Code:

iptables -I INPUT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j DROP

This will block all the IPs from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255

If you have ipt_ipranges module enabled (maybe the VPS provider can enable it for you), you can block specific ranges:

Code:

iptables -I INPUT -m iprange --src-range 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.13 -j DROP