Subject: Re: FTPD: disallowing concurrent connections from same IP
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/19/2003 14:43:17
Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:55:30AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > You can specify a class as "anonymous@host allow myclass" in your
> > ftpusers and then restrict "myclass" I believe.
>
> But wouldn't "myclass" only include the user from that one host? If I
> wanted to have the connection limit for anyone who connects, regardless
> of their IP, I'd have to set up a separate class for each of the 4
> billion IP addresses (or at least the ones that are assigned), and I
> don't have the disk space for a ftpusers/ftpd.conf that big :) Or am I
> still missing something here?
You may be right that we don't currently have a good way of doing that
-- Luke would know. Certainly it is something that ought to be added
if we can't currently do it.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com