Beware of new Fake Servers! IP Blockers.
Don’t ever connect to a fake server! If you connect to a fake server you not only get invalid, bullshit, or no results for your searches, but you also publish your shares directly to the RIAA/MPAA/police!! If you connect to a fake server while sharing dozens of DVDs or album-archives or hundreds of individual MP3s, you will definitly go into the hotlist for a lawsuit! Also as Emule queries all servers (eventually) for sources, it is important to keep fake servers out of your server list as it is a method of tracking demand for their files.
Here’s some stuff to help:
Precise Ranges for the Fake Servers (First two are from an older batch from last year):
212.150.248.0 – 212.150.248.31, 0, Isreal Fake Servers
72.34.98.1 – 72.34.98.23, 0 , USA Fake Servers
209.204.61.0-209.204.61.191, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.35.78-72.51.35.78, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.37.104-72.51.37.111, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.37.237-72.51.37.237, 0, New USA Fake Servers
72.51.38.136-72.51.38.143, 0, New USA Fake Servers
Yes the Isreali government is running fake servers, and so does the Chinese government. Nearly every server in the USA is fake and any that aren’t fake don’t last long. Live ED2K servers have the shortest life expectancy in the USA than any other country in the world. These IP ranges are already included in the new blocklist data from BlueTack though they are using a much wider range.
Links for IP Block Files.
update links that are pre-configured in the MorphXT Emule Mod:
IPFilter.dat — You can use this in the vanilla Emule too. BlueTack Emule list with additional monitoring bots added, but not updated as often as bluetack. Used on most of the ED2K servers and recommended by Lugdunum.
Fakes.dat — This shows up in the check fake column for searches in MorphXT.
IP2Country.csv — Update your IP address to country mapping data.
BlueTack:
BlueTack – Ads, Ad Trackers, Bad Porn
BlueTack – DShield – Known Hackers
BlueTack – Microsoft
BlueTack – Bogon – Unassigned IPs
BlueTack – Hijacked IPs
BlueTack – Recommended Global Exclusion
BlueTack – SpyWare
BlueTack – Proxy
BlueTack – Trojans
BlueTack – Bots & Spiders
BlueTack – EDU
BlueTack – INAN Multicast
BlueTack – INAN Private
BlueTack – INAN Reserved
BlueTack – Level 1 – AntiP2P
BlueTack – Level 2 – Corporations
BlueTack – Level 3
BlueTack – Emule — Everything But Level 3 and EDU
BlueTack – Paranoid — Everything (not recommended unless you ARE paranoid)
An IP blocker only protects you from indiscriminate, untargeted bulk monitoring from a centralized data center. It does not protect you at all if you are already being investigated on an individually or small-group targeted basis. Fake servers are only one of the ways they can find out what your sharing. If you make your shares publicly retrievable, it is even more important to have an up-to-date ip blocker. A share list can also be reverse engineered by spider-querying the network, which if you block their IP, they won’t be able to connect to you but they wills till know that the server/kad served you up as a source, but they will never get bytes from you.
Also as you notice the words ‘porn’, ’spyware’, and ‘hacker’, if you want your IP blocker to work all the time, get ProtoWall and BlockList Manager from BlueTack. They are freeware and Protowall will scale to 100,000+ ip-ranges better than any firewall box will (even the expensive ones).
