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Set up IP filtering in uTorrent and keep your ipfilter.dat up to date easily
By David, on May 27th, 2009

The IPFilter Updater application now has its own page: http://www.davidmoore.info/ipfilter-updater/

uTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients out there. In my opinion it’s the best.

You can set up IP filtering in uTorrent to block bad seeds and peers from a list maintained by the community.
How to set up IP filtering in uTorrent

Open up uTorrent and go to Options > Preferences from the menu or click the Preferences button in the toolbar
Select the Advanced option in the tree
Find ipfilter.enabled in the list and make sure it’s set to true
Click OK

How to get and update the ipfilter.dat

I’ve written a simple program that will download the ipfilter.dat from SourceForge and copy it into the file where uTorrent expects it.

uTorrent IPFilter Updater [ Requires .NET 3.5 ]

Updating the IPFilter

You should update the list often (at least once a month)

Run IPFilter Updater as usual to update the list

Getting uTorrent to pick up the updated list

If uTorrent is running when the ipfilter is updated, you have a couple of options to get it to reload the filter:

Exit and restart uTorrent

or

Select a torrent in your list, click the Peers tab in the bottom panel, right click in the list and choose Reload IPFilter.

Verifying uTorrent is reading the ipfilter:

In the Logger tab, you should see something similar to “Loaded ipfilter.dat (xxxxxx entries)”

Thanx David Moore