18 Dec 2008
Efficient IPTables PeerGuardian Blocklist
I like being watched as little as the next girl. But so far, the only Linux-based automatic PeerGuardian blocklist updater I’ve seen has been horribly inefficient, using over 200,000 individual iptables rules. It takes forever to parse, and can seriously slow down a low-end system.
I thought to myself, “here has to be a better way.” And, of course… there is. Here’s how.
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