Latest Blocklist for PeerGuardian 2 blocks Forest sim

Did my once a week update of blocklists for PeerGuardian 2 last night while in the Forest Sim and my computer crashed hard. As in, suddenly I'm looking at the BIOS boot screen .

After getting back into SL, noticed that it kept hanging on 'connecting to region...' and so relogged in from Home. No problem. Teleport to the Forest sim and end up on the northern shore of the nearest region, looking north into...

An ocean as far as I can see...

After several attempts of people to TP me over, always ending up in the void, I began looking at Firewall info.. seems the Forest was being blocked. Specifically the IP associated with it. Looking at PeerGuardian 2, I noticed it was getting hammered by the Forest IP.. so I'm looking at the screen dumbfounded 'why are you blocking it?'. Ah well... I disable it for a moment and POOF! There's the Forest sim.

Interesting...

The fix for this (for those who care) is this :

1) Open PeerGuardian 2 and disable it (so you can click on one of the lines before it vanishes in a scroll)

2) Right click on the entry associated with the Forest IP (66.150.245.11 and select 'allow permanently)

3) Watch as the Sim appears before your eyes!

Why was it blocked all of sudden? Don't know, don't care. I'm only interested in 1 aspect of this IP. Hope this works for everyone.

Also IP 66.150.245.119

Just found this out.

DeMentor Demented Coffee

Firewalls don't like Second Life. See:

http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=TechConfigFirewall

Then my toggling of Peer Guardian on and off shouldn't be making the Sim appear and disappear.. like it is now! POOF ! Its gone! POOF! There, its back!

My toggling it IS making it vanish to me. The IP of the Forest IS in the blocklist...

People need to know this.

Here are the screenshots :

To prove this you need to find the IP addresses that Peer Guardian blocks - and show that The Forest is in there.

By turning your firewall on and off you are just showing that the firewall affects it, not that The Forest is being targetted.

Taking screenshots of the Peer Guardian screen too... hang on.

Here are screenshots with PG2 included. As far as I know, PG isn't a true fully functional firewall BTW and simply blocks specific IP addresses.

The second picture is 1 minute later so that you can see that the PG log was stopped.

Seriously, I'm trying to be helpful and not a pain

It took me four hours yesterday to figure out that this was what was preventing me to going to that Sim, and its the only thing that consistantly worked, whether it is a firewall or not.

From looking this program up I dunno why you are running it unless you are doing p2p stuff at the same time... (If you are SL eats bandwidth).

http://methlabs.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6332

This thread says that the source is where the "attack" is coming from, and destination is where it is going to. The problem with this is that in your screen shot the source is you. (192.x.x.x).

The answer really is don't run this whilst playing SL.

Right - done some digging.

Your program thinks that IP address is linked to Internap. Internap seem to be a colo provider who seem to have a spamming reputation - http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=internap

Thanks for your research

I have Peer Guardian start on startup because I used to do a lot of P2P, but now its pretty rare (Damn you SL? ). I suppose I can take it out of startup and use it as needed.

I guess I just assumed it was protecting me from 'other things' in addition to P2P stuff. Ah well, one less thing to be running (not that I have much running on this PC other than the Sygate Personal Firewall).

See you in game!