Bans and Hosts

[Miplou]

Hello,

I've no found anywhere this function (forum, faq, etc) so I make this topic, sorry if the subect has already been treated.

I want to ban hosts and group of hosts (not the IP), for example :
*.videotron.ca
*.net
*bot*

Can you say me if there is a function to do this please ? Maby in a future version ?

Thanks for yours answers,


Miplou



(ps : I'm french and my english is a little terrible, sorry...)

[KalleB]

This would require HFS to be able to resolve IP-adresses...which may not be so simple thing to to. But basically I'm for it.

[rejetto]

sorry this feature isn't there.
translating from numbers to hostname is not difficult, but it is slow.
the problem in banning by hostname is that every connection should be
- translated (and this is slow)
- then accepted

this is not a problem for those who accept connections always from the same computers, because their addresses will be cached, and it will be slow only the first time.

anyway, i will put this thing in the to-do-list.

[Miplou]

OK rejetto, thanks for the answer and putting it in to-do-list

Bye,


Miplou

[Tuskenraider]

anyway, i will put this thing in the to-do-list.

say... how long is that to-do list anyway?? 3 or 4 pages?  just wondering...

tuskenraider

[rejetto]

you can read it on the HFS website
click on to-do-list