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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:46:50 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: restricting cvsupd access to a domain
Message-ID:  <20020314074650.GA16056@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020313172013.V1568-100000@m20.unixathome.org>
References:  <20020313172013.V1568-100000@m20.unixathome.org>

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 05:24:54PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> It seems our cvsup server (cvsup.nz.freebsd.org) is attracting attention
> from non .nz domains.  This is putting our free hosting in danger as it
> greatly increases the cost to our provider (http://www.citylink.co.nz/).
> I would like to restrict access to this server to .nz only.
> 
> Reading man cvsupd, I found cvsupd.access which looks like the way to go.
> But it appears this file handles only hostnames, not partial matching, so
> I can't do a:
> 
> +.nz

Even it it would work some nz user might use .com .net .org domains.

> Any clues on how to easily do this?

Usually you would get a list of allowed networks by traversing
whois routing databases.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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