Re: [Mldonkey-users] Server black list

[Brett Dikeman]

At 5:18 PM -0500 12/13/02, Stephane Goulet wrote:

> CIDR is indeed nice ;)
>
> Still i think some kind of : filter_non_routable_adresses option would have
> it's place with the black list ;)

I disagree.  There are a few cases where NOT filtering non-routeable 
addresses would be highly desirable.

For example, lets say you're a company that wants to distribute a 
training video across a corporate network with many branches, where 
the distributed nature of the edonkey protocol would have strong 
advantages.  That private network is almost guaranteed to be in a 
non-routeable IP range.

My opinion is that the best option would be to supply the default 
downloads.ini with a blacklist populated with all the standard 
non-routeable IP ranges specified in CIDR format.  That way, the user 
can remove their private net(s) if they need to.

Considering that in CIDR format you only need a few entries to 
specify all the non-routeable ranges...

Brett
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