Re: banning

From: Tim Yohn (yohnt@1st.net)
Date: 04/18/01


> > Is there a way to prevent any connections to the system
> > on the mud port and allow the same machine to connect?
> > Ive tried 'ban all *' which doesnt do much, and am
> > hoping to keep any external systems from connecting
> > to the port to get a 'Enter name' screen.
> > Anybody know what i'm talking about? thanks
>  I'm actually not sure if this will work or not, but have you tried editing
> config.c and binding it specifically to the loopback interface, 127.0.0.7?
> Should allow local connects, but obviously nothing else should be able to
> connect on that address.  Worth a shot anyway.

        ACK!  I must have been alseep when I wrote this still... anyone that is
anyone will know that the loopback interface is actually on the ip address
of 127.0.0.1, not what I said above...  Ugh, so much for first thing in the
morning posts :)

        Tim.

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