Why not have asterisk(s) represent allow all?

Regards,
Sai Pullabhotla





On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:40 AM, David Latorre (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote:
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> David Latorre commented on FTPSERVER-349:
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> Hello  Devnull,
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> When i first revised your patch I noticed this problem. I considered some 
> possibilities you haven't mentioned:
> -1. In the method that adds the subnets/ips to the WhiteListFilter  (   
> updateWhitelistFilter(), right?) we can remove the filter from the chain if 
> we have an empty subnet list.
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> This would work but I'm concerned that ftpserver users may want to use 
> WhiteListFilter when it is not in the chain.
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> -2. Explictly  check for the address 0.0.0.0/0 and consider it to mean "all 
> addresses allowed".
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> If we move the WhiteListFilter to MINA-core, it might be worth discussing 
> there how to signal that "all addresses are allowed".
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> What do you think, Niklas?
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>> WhiteList
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>>                 Key: FTPSERVER-349
>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FTPSERVER-349
>>             Project: FtpServer
>>          Issue Type: Improvement
>>          Components: Server
>>    Affects Versions: 1.0.3
>>            Reporter: DevNull43
>>            Priority: Trivial
>>             Fix For: 1.1.0
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>>         Attachments: WhiteList.txt
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>> WhiteList filer
>> Restricting access to FTP based on a WhiteList
>> BlackList -> Allow all, Deny some.
>> WhiteList -> Deny all, Allow some.
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