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sun-lite/firewall

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TLDR

A qBittorrent IP blocklist file that blocks around 202,000 IP ranges, including datacenter and anti-piracy monitoring ranges plus all IP ranges allocated to Israel.

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  root((firewall blocklist))
    What it does
      qBittorrent p2p blocklist
      202000 plus IP ranges
      Load once block everything
    Blocked categories
      Israel IP ranges
      Datacenter scanners
      Anti-P2P monitors
      Botnet infrastructure
    Tech stack
      p2p text format
      MaxMind GeoLite
    Use cases
      Torrent peer filtering
      Privacy focused blocking
    Audience
      qBittorrent users
      Torrent privacy seekers

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Load a ready-made blocklist into qBittorrent to filter out unwanted peer connections.

USE CASE 2

Block IP ranges associated with anti-piracy monitoring organizations from seeing your torrent activity.

USE CASE 3

Filter out datacenter and hosting-provider IP ranges commonly used by scanners.

What is it built with?

p2p formatMaxMind GeoLite

How does it compare?

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Stars474747
LanguageJavaScriptTypeScript
Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity1/52/52/5
Audiencegeneraldevelopergeneral

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

The list blocks all IP ranges allocated to an entire country, not just ranges tied to a documented threat, which some users may want to review before applying.

In plain English

This repository is a downloadable IP blocklist file for qBittorrent, a BitTorrent client. The file is in the .p2p format, a plain text format also used by eMule, and it is meant to stop certain IP addresses from connecting to your torrents at all. According to the README, the list contains around 202,000 IP ranges pulled together from two sources: MaxMind's GeoLite country database and separately curated threat lists. The blocked ranges fall into a few categories the README names directly: all IP ranges allocated to Israel, both internet provider and residential ranges, with cloud and CDN ranges excluded, 1,599 of those ranges specifically, datacenter and hosting ranges the author associates with scanners and scrapers, ranges tied to organizations that monitor peer-to-peer file sharing, naming MediaSentry and BayTSP as examples, and ranges the author identifies as known botnet infrastructure or malicious activity. To use it, you open qBittorrent's preferences, go to the Connection section, turn on IP filtering, and point it at the cleaned.p2p file from this repository. The change applies right away without restarting the application. The README is short and does not go into how the list is maintained, updated, or verified beyond naming its two sources, and it does not state a software license. Because the list bans an entire country's IP ranges rather than only ranges tied to a specific documented threat, users should judge for themselves whether that fits their own filtering goals before loading it.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through loading the cleaned.p2p file from sun-lite/firewall into qBittorrent's IP filtering settings.
Prompt 2
Explain what categories of IP ranges sun-lite/firewall's blocklist covers according to its README.
Prompt 3
What sources does sun-lite/firewall say it pulls its IP ranges from?

Frequently asked questions

What is firewall?

A qBittorrent IP blocklist file that blocks around 202,000 IP ranges, including datacenter and anti-piracy monitoring ranges plus all IP ranges allocated to Israel.

How hard is firewall to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is firewall for?

Mainly general.

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