client.go        |  4 +++-
 iplist/iplist.go | 12 +++++++++++-

diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index 9a427faf68e9f5bff6974dae9e71c81d068dbe46..eddfcff8133b64655fcadb16dc1fa411ffe27f3a 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -380,12 +380,14 @@ 	defer f.Close()
 	var ranges []iplist.Range
 	uniqStrs := make(map[string]string)
 	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(f)
+	lineNum := 1
 	for scanner.Scan() {
 		r, ok, lineErr := iplist.ParseBlocklistP2PLine(scanner.Bytes())
 		if lineErr != nil {
-			err = fmt.Errorf("error reading torrent blocklist line: %s", lineErr)
+			err = fmt.Errorf("error reading torrent blocklist line %d: %s", lineNum, lineErr)
 			return
 		}
+		lineNum++
 		if !ok {
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/iplist/iplist.go b/iplist/iplist.go
index 756c0263d5d62fe8fe1d0aeb7672814f3441c199..2145b297fc5a1dc9fafabe3d8527fbd9628d40c3 100644
--- a/iplist/iplist.go
+++ b/iplist/iplist.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package iplist
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net"
 	"sort"
@@ -67,7 +68,16 @@ 	if len(l) == 0 || bytes.HasPrefix(l, []byte("#")) {
 		return
 	}
 	colon := bytes.IndexByte(l, ':')
-	hyphen := bytes.IndexByte(l[colon+1:], '-') + colon + 1
+	if colon == -1 {
+		err = errors.New("missing colon")
+		return
+	}
+	hyphen := bytes.IndexByte(l[colon+1:], '-')
+	if hyphen == -1 {
+		err = errors.New("missing hyphen")
+		return
+	}
+	hyphen += colon + 1
 	r.Description = string(l[:colon])
 	r.First = net.ParseIP(string(l[colon+1 : hyphen]))
 	r.Last = net.ParseIP(string(l[hyphen+1:]))