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Subject:    RE: [pure-ftpd] Should the geoip patch get merged in?
From:       "Fabrice Boissat" <Fabrice.Boissat () 4d ! fr>
Date:       2009-04-27 12:43:15
Message-ID: 225DE00126B14C48B1E2A72A9C4C0F62047FE9FC () srv-ex4dfr ! private ! 4d ! fr
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Yes Thijs, if your server is hosted in a place where you can manage the firewall. \
(*thinking of datacenter, or mutualized hosting*)  
Fabrice BOISSAT

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Thijs Stuurman [mailto:t.stuurman@gmail.com] 
Envoyé : lundi 27 avril 2009 13:43
À : list@pureftpd.org
Objet : Re: [pure-ftpd] Should the geoip patch get merged in?

That would also be the case of use for me... I don't even want to show a login prompt \
for people from china or russia if you get my drift :) but I haven't looked in to \
this performance wise as how it might be better in every aspect to keep those kind of \
features at firewall level be it hardware or somehow using iptables.

I don't think having the feature would make it more 'bloated'.

   Thijs Stuurman

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Fabrice Boissat <Fabrice.Boissat@4d.fr>wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> It can be usefull for paranoid people like me who could want to 
> restrict access to their server for their country people only.
> It could be a another more layer to the already paranoid section of 
> the configuration file.
> 
> Cordialement,
> 
> Fabrice BOISSAT
> administrateur systeme et reseau
> 4D sas - 60 rue d'alsace - 92110 CLICHY (FRANCE)
> 01.40.87.93.62
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Frank Denis [mailto:j@pureftpd.org] Envoyé : samedi 25 avril 2009 
> 19:07 À : list@pureftpd.org Objet : [pure-ftpd] Should the geoip patch 
> get merged in?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> A while ago, I wrote a tiny patch to add geoip support to pure-ftpd, 
> because someone was really in need of something like that.
> 
> The patch is:
> 
> http://download.pureftpd.org/pure-ftpd/patches/pureftpd-geoip/
> 
> What does it do? Here's an example.
> 
> If have a file called /etc/pureftpd-restricted-countries.txt whose 
> content looks like:
> 
> US
> DE
> 
> # Comments are allowed
> 
> JP
> UK
> DK
> 
> Only people connecting from IP address that looks from USA, Germany, 
> Japan, UK and Denmark will get through.
> 
> Since someone asked again for such a feature today, here's a public poll:
> should that patch get merged in? Who would need such a feature?
> 
> I'd like to avoid adding bloat, ie. features that would only be 
> useful to very few people. It doesn't mean that the patch wouldn't be 
> kept in sync with the rest of the server.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -Frank.
> 
> 


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