[Mldonkey-users] 2.01, servers.met and blacklists

[Peter Conrad]

Hi,

since the 2.01 release I noticed an increasingly large number of bad
server addresses in my list. It seems they are coming from

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/network/servers.met

that's been integrated into the default configuration. That file contains
(or contained this morning) 1151 servers, 430 (!) of these were local
(127.*) addresses and 74 were on private networks (10.*, 192.168.*, 172.16.*)
so almost 50% of that file is crap. I suggest to either clean it up or
take it out of the default configuration.

While I'm at it I'd also suggest to blacklist IANA reserved address blocks
in the default configuration (see 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space ), or at least the
special use addresses listed in RFC 3330 (see
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt ). I *may* be able to create a
patch for this later this week, although my knowledge of ocaml is
practically non-existent.

Another suggestion I have is to use CIDR notation for blacklisted addresses
instead of the (IMHO stupid) "wildcard" 255. E. g. to blacklist the 172.16
block you currently have to list 16 wildcard addresses instead of the
nice and short "172.16.0.0/12". This is more than my knowledge of ocaml
permits me to do at this time, though.

Bye,
        Peter
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