Well, you're basically right. A string comparison is being performed, not
an
ip check. Since ip's are often dynamic, storing an exact ip isn't the
best way
to do things anyway.
My advice is to not go back and forth between fast and slow dns... pick
one and
keep it. If you find that you must switch, it's something that wont
happen very
often so the ban's shouldn't be that much of a problem. (Unless you
really have
alot of people out there that what to use your mud while you dont want
them.)
At 12:32 PM 12/4/97 -0800, you wrote:
>>>>
Recently I discovered this little bug and have yet to
fix it...however maybe this should be something considered to be added to
stock code.
If you ban someone using their resolved name(IP address) and then switch
the name server is slow to YES then when that person you banned tries to
log in, they CAN. The ban list appears to check for exact match instead
of the the resolved or actual IP address. So in order to fully ban
someone, it would seem you have to ban the resolved name as well as the
actual IP addy. If this is confusing, its because Im not quite sure how
to word this. Anyway if you do understand please offer any suggestions
to a fix. As I am just now starting to deal with it.
Abram
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