Re: [Gtk-gnutella-users] hostiles

[david s. <rock808@DavidSlimp.com>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:11:05PM +0200, Florian Laws wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:55:02AM -0500, david slimp wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:20:00AM -0700, Richard wrote:
> > > yup  using the filters ..
> > > i made a filter in GTK-Gnutella  to drop all results 
> > > from  64.15.0.0/255.255.0.0 using them .. 
> > > put the toolbar on ( makes filter access easy ) then make a  global rule 
> > > my settings are 
> > > 
> > > in Global filters  Filter Global ( pre) (X) enabled 
> > > flags active   Condition  if ip matches 
> > > ip address 64.15.0.0
> > > network mask  255.255.0.0 
> > 
> > 
> > 	Perhaps the team at Gtk-Gnutella could
> > 	start incorporating a default "ban list" of
> > 	these types of places, so as a whole we
> > 	(more of us) could start doing this as well
> > 	with little or no effort.  It would certainly
> > 	reduce the number of questions about this that
> > 	would need to be handled by this email list,
> > 	as well as set up more of our systems to block
> > 	these bad IPs right off the bat.
> 
> I certainly hope there will be no such thing as a banlist
> incorporated in GTK-Gnutella indiscriminately blocking whole /16s 
> that don't even belong to a single ISP.
> 
> However, a user defined banlist might be nice.
> Regards,
> Florian

	Well, I'm not suggesting that something be built in to
	GtkG source!  But I am suggesting that a user-definable
	"banlist" config file be set up and some default (bad) IPs
	be shipped with it, as a "starting place".  I, for one,
	would like to have this automatically set up for me, so
	I don't need to mess with the filters myself for each new
	host that's found, possibly messing something up, etc.
	I'm sure many other "standard" users would like to have
	something more automated too.  Kinda like the fact that
	most linux systems these days come with a standard/default
	firewall set up to protect again many of the badguys, but
	it's still completly redifinable by the end user.  Still,
	the reason most linux distro DID set up the default firewall
	rules, is because most "average joe" users don't take the
	time to set it up themselves, either because they don't have
	the time or want to take the time to learn all about the
	syntax, rules, etc, or they simply overlook that step,
	or whatever reason.

	I think GtkG would be served well, by also taking this
	attitude of starting off people with a good, protective
	default.



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