Blocking all torrents on your network is really easy..

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terrabyte911
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 19:17    Post subject: Blocking all torrents on your network is really easy.. Reply with quote
Blocking torrents is really very simple.

Block the trackers.
Stop access to the tracker you stop torrents dead, encrypted or not.
Trackers use web addresses like this -

hxxx://tracker1.tvtorrents.com/TrackerServlet/announce
hxxx://www.h33t.com:3310/announce

Simply add these 3 keywords to Access Restrictions/Website Blocking by Keyword

tracker
announce
d1:ad2

The last keyword blocks DHT torrents.
99% of trackers use one of them keywords.

6 of us share my inet connection so I set this on thoughout the day and off at night.
Works really well.
All the best.
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terrabyte911
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 13:40    Post subject: Reply with quote
Has anyone tried this?

I see post after post of 'I can't stop torrents' and yet not one response from anyone saying my way has worked for them.

Anyone?
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 14:11    Post subject: Reply with quote
maybe you should point some of those thread to youe post then Wink

i haven't tried but then... i don't use torrents!

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 14:36    Post subject: Reply with quote
terrabyte911 wrote:
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Anyone?

Looks like some fantastic info. I'll try it ASAP, but theres a bunch of others using my router right now and I don't want to reboot it ATM. Will report back soon.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:11    Post subject: Reply with quote
Seems to be a way around these three blocking words. Do you have any more ideas ? Yahoo.com returns 404 as expected.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 20:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think I have an answer. utorrent remembers it's connections for a while so restart utorrent and also turn dht off/on.
If dht or pex connections are there they will start to make more connections. So for the keywords to work leave ut off for until all it's connections are dead.



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 23:17    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ecellent info. I'll give this a try later tonight and let you know.

Thanks ! Razz

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 18:29    Post subject: Reply with quote
Still no luck. I even upgraded to the same version of utorrent and rebooted both router and PC.
Within 20 seconds the torrent is rockin' and rollin'

Maybe my firmware is not blocking key words the same way yours does.
Mine only blocks keywords in the URL itself.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:03    Post subject: DNS Reply with quote
I am wondering if blocking P2P/torrenting DNS entries would serve to help the cause. This may be one several techniques that could be combined together to form an effective solution.
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