In response to Frank about the blocklists, it really is better than nothing… the lists will keep you from being picked up from ip scanners that anti p2p companies/governement/Major Corps use, The List provided in the article Is updated, I’ve got 392,877 rules in transmission as of Jan 11 2015. If this post was useful to you feel free to buy me a beer 🍺! Thank you really much. This works with all versions of Transmission and with all OSs. Be sure to check the option below to make Transmission update the blocklist weekly for you so you won’t have to worry anymore. Simply add this URL in the Transmission preferences like this:Īnd the application will do all the magic for you combining the lists and adding those IP rules to the built-in firewall. Luckly John Tyree, a user from , created a GitHub project which combines all those iBlocklist lists in to a single one and he hosted the result here: If you search on Google you will find people recommending this website, called iBlocklist, which collects various block lists but there are to many of them and they all have the same problem I said before: no complete 100% protection. In fact there are a ton of lists all for different purposes and no one will give you complete bad-peer protection since one will shield your client from spammers, one from the US Government and no one from all those things combined. Looking for a nice and complete blocklist for Transmission can be a pain, especially if you’re not sure of which one to pick. Why? Because it’s super easy to use and configure and it’s not resource-hungry like some other one. Transmission is, in my opinion, the best BitTorrent client for OS X and Linux.

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