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PeerGuardian 2
Just so every1 knows, using PeerGuardian 2 will prohibit you from connecting to the test server. I found this out the hard way, twice. Yes, I found it out, forgot, then had to find out again. Just thought I would let every1 know.
What is PeerGuardian? What platform is this on?
It's something that prevents known "badguys" from connecting to you through peer-to-peer applications like bittorrent.
But it lets you connect to the main server? Weird. I wonder what our "internet neighbors" at the office did.
hehehe. Always good to check out the neighbors before you move in, I always say...
Inc, check the blocklist at http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php
If you can see the site, then you're not blocked on your present IP address... from there, take a look through the blocklist and si if your test server is on it, and if so, ask them why... they manage the Peerguardian blocklist, and frankly, I've had people tell me that I was on the blocklist before when I wasn't, so, you really don't know until you check for yourself.
and yea, they generally block large IP ranges...
PeerGuardian targets:
Government IPs
Advertiser IPs
Malware/Spyware IPs
Anti-P2P organization IPs
and a few more things too I think, if you enable them... it works on all protocols, but can be disabled for HTTP.
If you can see the site, then you're not blocked on your present IP address... from there, take a look through the blocklist and si if your test server is on it, and if so, ask them why... they manage the Peerguardian blocklist, and frankly, I've had people tell me that I was on the blocklist before when I wasn't, so, you really don't know until you check for yourself.
and yea, they generally block large IP ranges...
PeerGuardian targets:
Government IPs
Advertiser IPs
Malware/Spyware IPs
Anti-P2P organization IPs
and a few more things too I think, if you enable them... it works on all protocols, but can be disabled for HTTP.
I tried to reproduce it and had no problems, only my latency was slightly increased (nearly unplayable in terms of PvP).
OS X 10.4.4, PG 2.
On a sidenote: why would you want to run PeerGuardian whilst playing VO anyway? I won't even speak of how it mangled browsing.
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Uninstalling PG2 was hell. It required me to find everything that was PG and trash it... guess the developer never heard of an uninstaller with a GUI.
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OS X 10.4.4, PG 2.
On a sidenote: why would you want to run PeerGuardian whilst playing VO anyway? I won't even speak of how it mangled browsing.
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Uninstalling PG2 was hell. It required me to find everything that was PG and trash it... guess the developer never heard of an uninstaller with a GUI.
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Tosh: just disable or exit it... why even bother uninstalling? unless you never plan to ever use it for anything again and are bothered by the whole 2-3MB it takes up on your HD...
I'm bothered by the fact that it blocked 2 of my IMAP eMail accounts and several websites. Both eMail service providers are highly secure and reputable. I uninstalled it now anyway.
I'd be more concerned about the blocklists, tosh. What lists were you using?
Also, there's no real reason to use it in HTTP - it's only a hinderance there, and there are better HTTP-blocking applications out there.
Also, there's no real reason to use it in HTTP - it's only a hinderance there, and there are better HTTP-blocking applications out there.