Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Just a suggestion...

[Joseph R. <rya...@os...>]

Thats a really great idea; however, not much good if the admin doesn't know
the offending ip address :)  Should there also be an option to record ip
addresses on each post?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wizard" <wi...@ne...>
To: <nms...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:38 AM
Subject: [Nms-cgi-devel] Just a suggestion...


>     Back around 1997, I had made some security modifications to Matt
> Wright's WWWBoard for a friend of mine who was having some problems with
it.
> In addition to restricting content-length, limiting re-posting, and a
banner
> ad addition, I added a section which allowed for IP filtering. I finally
got
> a chance to dig around, and came-up with the attached code.
>     It works through a deny/allow mechanism, which first denies the domain
> specified by the IP address, and then allowing specific IPs within that
> address range. For example, "10.10.32.*" in the $deny string would deny
> postings by any users within that domain, however if "10.10.32.7" were in
> the $allow string, then that particular IP could still post. The IPs of
all
> users is posted as an HTML comment to each post. This IS somewhat of an
> advanced option for a lot of WWWBoard users and may be a problem with the
> un-initiated admin, however. Any thoughts?
> Let me know,
> Grant M.
>