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Confusion between versions/forks[edit]

This article suggests there is a linear progression in the development or PeerGuardian 1, 2 and then PeerBlock, but that is not what is happening really.The version 2 and PeerBlock can in fact be considered forks which have degraded the features and limited the support to Win32 platforms.On the other hand the PeerGuardian 1 client keeps cross-platform compatibility and is still maintained (last release is March 2015).This article needs an overall revision to put upfront the 'original' version of peerguardian, which is still well maintained, and frame all other versions as failing forks (which are indeed discontiued). jaromil (talk) 09:36, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Housekeeping[edit]

I split up the different versions into their own sub-sections, added more content there around the new features and new references. I also added a new separate criticisms section based on general blocklist issues, rather than the application itself (ie. critics of the technique). any comments or further info appreciated Cubrilovic (talk) 08:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Known Issues[edit]

Updating with information regarding BF2 and HL:Source games not working with PeerGuardian 2. This is a KNOWN ISSUE. See proof in bug list here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=131687&atid=721926

This is neither a bug nor an issue. The servers of games companies are blanket blocked to avoid issues related to DRM and numerous anti-piracy measures from these companies. While I'm not impartial here, from npov this is an invalid criticism since this is what PG is DESIGNED to do. I comment on this issue in the section about the Lists in criticism.

I say: 'Occasionally IP addresses of 'friendly' organisations and groups may be added to the blocklist. This is sometimes a case of over-zealous or incorrect moderation at blocklist.org, but can also be for other reasons. For example, a lot of ranges owned by Valve Software are blocked, meaning that some users must allow these IP addresses in order to connect to game servers. The reasons behind Valve's addition to the blocklist follows a number of occasions where the organisation posted fake BitTorrent downloads.'

to back this up see the BBC article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4041289.stm

It is not valid to make criticisms without full understanding. As I also say in the article, any IP address can be allowed by right clicking on it and choosing to allow the IP. This means when you connect to counter-strike, etc you can just switch to pg, right click on the Valve IPs and choose to allow them. It'll never do it again.

This application is not simplistic, it's built from several elements and has often been hyped by non-savvy media orgs - there are misconceptions about the application, this being one of them. In the persuit of fact I have reverted your entry, and I think have justified myself from the evidence above. If you wish to hear exactly the same argument again you can post on the forums about it.

I'm trying incredibly hard to keep this article accurate and comprehensive, and I am actually setting out the largest section of the article to the analysis of criticism of it. That is neutral (I think), while this is, while an issue people discover, not an actual problem with the application. In short: it's meant to do that.

--JFM 14:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

You're involvement in the project itself is skewing your positioning of this article. The fact that this program breaks Battlefield 2 and Steam VAC connectivity is a huge concern considering its audience, doubly so because it gives no indication to its gaming audience that it will purposefully break such applications. The desire to play legitimate games far exceeds that of software piracy. The developers themselves have been reluctant to comment on the STEAM and BF2 issues and the fact that this software breaks them.

Unfortunately it is impossible to distinguish between the different parts of an orgs webservers. Have you read the manual of the program? It makes these issues very clear, and I have already stated that a simple choice to 'allow' an IP address permenantly will make the application work correctly. This is similar to the operation of most firewalls (where the user is prompted to allow an application to connect to the internet). I have already stated my involvement with this project, so that there can be no doubt or suspicion about this - I am being open about that and thus far I have refrained from writing a longer article about this application because I have feared that it would be considered biased. It does not break the applications; it only prevents them from connecting to IP addresses in the blocklist, the same thing will happen to any other application where the IP is in the blocklist. The reason for an IP being in the blocklist is usually clearly explained (unfortunatley after the dispute over control our blocklist information page is down temporarily). To call this a bug or an issue shows a misunderstanding about the purpose and operation about the program. --JFM 12:36, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, thanks for all the info, JFM. It would be great if every software developer could be as clear as you are. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.19.201.199 (talk) 16:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

With the default blocklists, NOD32 update servers are also blocked, stemming from an incident where one of the list maintainers was downloading a movie from a private torrent tracker, and spotted an IP belonging to one of the update servers. The maintainer then blocked a range of update servers. This prompted ESET to class peerguardian as 'potentially unwanted software', as with all software that restricts the ability to update their AV product. Being on the receiving end of a block by software instead of being the one doing the blocking, made the peerguardian admins, and the staff at bluetack, lash out at ESET, instead of following the advice they hand out to others, and set the affected item in the program's exclude list. 68.211.102.182 (talk) 07:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

History[edit]

When did this become open sourced, I had thought that it was closed.

As well we can add more information about PeerGuardian 2's new fe

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