Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 27. 09. 2010 12:25:51 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine, disease or art. [Agree] [Disagree] Keep 'em coming, J. It's been a while since I've come across somehin

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-28 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:29, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年09月27日 18:25, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > It would help to know what software "runs the website". Are we talking > > about Apache2? > > No. In fact I wanted to abstract the software running on there for a > reason: there is a http server (n

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月27日 18:25, Jochen Schulz wrote: > It would help to know what software "runs the website". Are we talking > about Apache2? No. In fact I wanted to abstract the software running on there for a reason: there is a http server (not apache2, but bozohttpd because I am developing a modified ve

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zhang Weiwu: > > Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised example: > > I have computer A that runs a website. I only want > myhost.dyn-dns.com to be able to access this website, others who > want to access the website should get denied. How do I configure > c

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/09/10 19:47, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年09月27日 16:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Would dyn-dns help? > ahhh, yes. This is exactly what I used. I know how to get dynamic dns > running, but need a way to control access to it. > > Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised e

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月27日 16:54, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Would dyn-dns help? ahhh, yes. This is exactly what I used. I know how to get dynamic dns running, but need a way to control access to it. Here I re-ask the question in plain language and an improvised example: I have computer A that runs a websit

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/09/10 18:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. > > I need rather loose security that the server daemon offer services on a > TCP port, allow/deny a client's tcp incoming connection based on a FQDN. > The problem being the ip address of the FQDN is a dynamic one of the > same host, changing once pe

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年09月27日 16:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > The problem being the ip address of the FQDN is a dynamic one of the > same host, changing once per three days. > In case I wasn't clear with the above explanation: with dynamic IP address, dns reverse-lookup won't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I need rather loose security that the server daemon offer services on a TCP port, allow/deny a client's tcp incoming connection based on a FQDN. The problem being the ip address of the FQDN is a dynamic one of the same host, changing once per three days. I know both IP table and tcpd can m