Questions about blocklists

[blueshift]

Hey everyone, I really like the Transmission client but theirs a few things that I don't understand yet.

I've been reading up on IP blocklists and I update Transmission's default blocklist daily. I see that it downloads a blocklist called "level1" from some organization called Bluetack.

Anyway, according to: http://blocklistpro.com/faqs/biss-ip-fi ... t-faq.html there are a lot of blocklists besides just level1. The paranoid blocklist gives an entire list of things it blocks:

* Ad-Trackers
* Bad Peers List
* Bogon
* D-Shield
* EDU
* Hijacked
* IANA Multicast
* IANA Private
* IANA Reserved
* Level 1 [ Anti-P2P ]
* Level 2 [ Corp ]
* Level 3
* Microsoft
* Non Lan List
* Proxy
* Spiders
* Spyware

So I guess my questions are:

1) What exactly is Bogon, D-Shield, EDU, IANA Multicast/Private/Reserved, level2, level 3, and spiders? Most of the other ones are pretty much self explanitory.

2 Which blocklists should I download to block out some of the bad people (spyware pushers, big brother, etc) who try to connect to me? A friend of mine said he used blocklists at one point but it ended up that the amount of peers that were blocked was so enormous that he couldn't connect to a good amount of people, so he just stopped using them. Is that what happens when you start adding a lot of blocklists or did he just have a bad experience?

3 What qualifies someone as a "bad peer"? Is it enough to simply not seed a file or two 1:1, or does it require being a general leech and hardly ever seeding 1:1? How does someones IP get on a blocklist? As far as I know theirs nothing in any of the BT clients I've ever used that have asked me or included an option that went something along the lines of "would you like to send a list of encountered leeches to a blocklist agency"?

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to answer some of my questions.

[dencrypt]

I have a somewhat related question regarding this matter. Is there anyway you can take a peek inside the blocklist to see which IP numbers are actually blocked? My ~/.config/transmission/blocklists/level1.bin is not easily read since it's a binary. Some of my friends can't connect to me when the default blocklist is activated and I really don't think they are affiliated with MAFIAA or some other retarded organization so I'm really confused. Is the blocklist also blocking specific trackers maybe?

[Ryoujin]

1) What exactly is Bogon, D-Shield, EDU, IANA Multicast/Private/Reserved, level2, level 3, and spiders? Most of the other ones are pretty much self explanitory.

You could probably get all that information if you Google'd it, or searched in Wikipedia, as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DShield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering

2 Which blocklists should I download to block out some of the bad people (spyware pushers, big brother, etc) who try to connect to me? A friend of mine said he used blocklists at one point but it ended up that the amount of peers that were blocked was so enormous that he couldn't connect to a good amount of people, so he just stopped using them. Is that what happens when you start adding a lot of blocklists or did he just have a bad experience?

You can't really set that information in Transmission.

3 What qualifies someone as a "bad peer"? Is it enough to simply not seed a file or two 1:1, or does it require being a general leech and hardly ever seeding 1:1? How does someones IP get on a blocklist? As far as I know theirs nothing in any of the BT clients I've ever used that have asked me or included an option that went something along the lines of "would you like to send a list of encountered leeches to a blocklist agency"?

Seems you already have a reference of from where the lists come, keep in mind that they are not maintained by Transmission's developers, so this isn't the right place to ask.

[rb07]

Is there anyway you can take a peek inside the blocklist to see which IP numbers are actually blocked?
My ~/.config/transmission/blocklists/level1.bin is not easily read since it's a binary.

Level1.bin is produced by the daemon (and T's GUI applications I guess) from level1 which is pure text.

The text defines ranges so you have to do a little more work than just search for an IP, or get lucky and find that IP as one of the limits on a given range.

[unblocktheplanet]

I don’t live in a copyright fanatic country so I mostly see the blocklist feature as a way of keeping the armada at bay (so to speak!) when I visit one.

However, it seems the old and new Trannies don’t automatically link to a blocklist download. So where do I find that mythic URL so’s I can add it to the box?

I’m not familiar with the concept of ‘bad peers’. However, I have a lot of longstanding downloads that have hung at "1 of 1" or "0 of 1" or even "0 of 7". Does this mean those 7, let’s say, are bad peers (there are actually NO peers available)? Would there be an advantage to blocking that sort of ‘bad peer’? And how would I go about it? Or...how might I make force those useless peers to do my bidding?

Thanks in advance!