Subj : Telnet Ringdown server
To   : Dumas Walker
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 11:59:28

 DW> I did a git and tried the ringdown this afternoon.  
 DW> Pretty neat.  One thing I noticed
 DW> is that if I manually add an address to ringdown.ban 
 DW> and then start ringdown, the dat
 DW> data
 DW> appears to get emptied out and I am able to connect 
 DW> from the banned address.

Ringdown is ignoring any lines that don't have an expiration timestamp and count of # of times the ban has been triggered.

80.246.81.70 1709149268 1

First column is the IP, second is unix timestamp indicating when the ban expires, and third column is the number of times this IP has been banned.

A work-around would be to use:

1.2.3.4 2147483647 0

Where 2147483647 is the maximum unix timestamp (Jan 18 2038), closest thing to a permanent ban currently.


More friendly behaviour would probably be to assume any line with only an IP, or with an expiration time of 0, should be considered a permanent ban - I will add this to my todo list.


Thanks for trying out the telnet ringdown server and especially thanks for feedback!


Chris/akacastor

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