Subj : Re: host/ip settings
To   : Digital Man
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Apr 11 2025 15:25:52

-=> Digital Man wrote to Rixter <=-

 DM>   Re: host/ip settings
 DM>   By: Rixter to All on Fri Apr 11 2025 03:14 pm

 > Good afternoon,
 > In the host/ip exemptions is a verbose entry acceptable ie:
 > vert.synchro.net? I have 71.95.196.34 set to exempt. I was just curios? Do
 > both work? Verbose and numerical?

 DM> I'm not sure what exemptions you're referring to. "Exemptions" sounds
 DM> like a white-list and not sure what file/list you mean that matches
 DM> that description.

 DM> For the ip.can filter file, only IP addresses/ranges can be specified.
 DM> For the host.can filter file, only hostnames are expected.
 DM> https://wiki.synchro.net/config:filter_files

My guess on what the poorly-worded / incomplete / vague question is 
asking about is:  ../ctrl/ipfilter_exempt.cfg

Seems fairly obvious to me that it's for IP addresses, not hostnames...



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