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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:31:17 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting clients per source IP address (ftpd, inetd, etc.)
Message-ID:  <20020621133117.GB2476@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <3D129CA8.EFADA4FF@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020621000924.GA2178@hades.hell.gr> <3D129CA8.EFADA4FF@mindspring.com>

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On 2002-06-20 20:25 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I've been thinking for quite some time to add per-client-IP limiting
> > to ftpd, and I had almost decided upon something like the following,
> > where each child of ftpd has two numbers associated with it.
>
> Someone just did something similar for inetd (per IP per port).

I know.  I missed that post (probably deleted it accidentally), and a
friend told me that this was being discussed.  Since I had been giving
the topic a big of thought, I thought I'd post what I had and ask for
comments.  The friend who notified me about this mentioned that a
linear list was being used and what I had so far would probably be OK
for inetd too.

> The more I think about this, and the fact that there is code growing
> to do basically the same thing in every program, the more I think
> that the code to do this needs to be centralized.

A simple core reuse of ../../foo.c would probably be sufficient in
this case, since the part that does the limiting only needs the
following interface:

	find_client_addr();
	find_client_pid();
	add_client(addr, pid);
	del_client(pid);	/* called by reapchild() */

> Putting this code into a seperate daemon, or even natd, makes a
> lot more sense to me than hacking up the kernel, or every network
> application ever written.

Sound very general to me, and I can't say I don't like the idea.

- Giorgos


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