At 19.00 31/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Matthew Toseland (toad at amphibian.dyndns.org) wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:17:42AM +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>> > I think we need an auto-string-matching-filter with 'localhost' and
>> > startwith '127.' addresses wich ignore that references.
>> What about 192.168. etc? We can block the same IPs that we already check
>> to bypass the bandwidth limiter.
>
>I can envision someone trying to set up a private Freenet for testing.
>If you block non-routable or loopback addresses by default (which
>I agree is a good idea), then there should be a config file setting
>for people to *not* block, so they can set up their private Freenets.

IMHO, this too is a good point (I do a private Freenet long ago ...)
What about block silly addresses always & put in freenet.conf
 a parameter to allow/disallow private addresses (guess the default
 value ....) ?

Ciao.   Marco


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