Re: white-listing in hosts_allow plugin

On 09/12/10 13:10, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to add the capability to white-list in the hosts_allow plugin.
> Specifically, we have a relay that we expect to get multiple connections
> from so I don't want to restrict connections from that IP.
> 
> I was looking at the hosts_allow code, trying to work out the best way
> to implement this without duplication. Then it hit me that if we just
> reverse the order of the tests, we can use the hosts_allow mechanism to
> white-list hosts.

Actually, the more I think about this, the more I think that the
connections-per-ip code should be in a different plugin to the
hosts_allow code, and should have a separate config file which would
allow per-host max connection limits.

Is that something you'd be interested in merging back with HEAD?

R.