On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: > > IMHO, the way to solve this is to change SIMS to read the blacklist > from a text file. Same with the router. After reading it, SIMS could > display it in the browser admin page, although this would not be 100% > necessary (instead of displaying it there could be a simple "updated" > message as appears now). The problem with it is of course how do you > update the text file. Since it runs on a Mac though, you should be > able to mount the SIMS volume from anywhere, and transfer the file > that way. Am I missing anything? > > With a little bit of work on the part of the user, this would also be > a solution to the age-old problem of how to document/comment the > blacklist/router. SIMS would not have to be reworked for any new > format. It could keep the same old format, and anyone wanting to > heavily comment or otherwise modify the "master" blacklist could > always run it through a preprocessor of their own design (Perl or > BBEdit script for example) that would put it in the SIMS format. > > I don't know the SIMS source code and have no idea how hard this > would be to do. In general though, I have a hard time believing it > would be difficult. To put my money where my mouth is, if I was given > access to that part of the SIMS code that did this, I'd give a shot > at writing C code to instead read the blacklist from a text file. > Gulp. >
I am sure it would be very easy to read this from a text file. But since SIMS is free, and Dimitri/Stalker are working on this on their own for nothing, it may just be one of those "nice to haves" that is on the backburner. Of course, if Stalker wanted to open up some or all of the SIMS code that is a different story... However, there may be some things they consider proprietary in the code. In which case they would have to turn those parts into binary libraries, etc. We can hope ;-) I am thinking maybe the rbl is the way to go. I need some good docs on how exactly they work, though.. Time to hit google.... though links are welcomed (via private mail). -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
