Server Security Update

[LordMatt]

This would lock me out of RC forever. My ip always starts off 172. and after I log off AOL or shut down my computer and come back on....the numbers after 172 change. This makes it so that I can never have a set IP. :-\

[TESTRETIS]

Originally Posted by LordMatt

This would lock me out of RC forever. My ip always starts off 172. and after I log off AOL or shut down my computer and come back on....the numbers after 172 change. This makes it so that I can never have a set IP. :-\

^ What he said.

[Doahh_p2p]

Make an IP log

[thesaiyan]

Originally Posted by Doahh_p2p

Make an IP log

The rclog.txt logs the IP of every RC connected to the gserver?

[Spark910]

Originally Posted by thesaiyan

The rclog.txt logs the IP of every RC connected to the gserver?

Often the logs get destroyed (far too big to open), so it would be good if it logged the IPs when they logged off to a log not on the playerworld.

[GrowlZ1010]

Just as a little aside, the following IP range should be valid for all AOL users, as it encompasses every IP that AOL owns in the 172.*.*.* block:

172.128.*.*,172.129.*.*,172.130.*.*,172.131.*.*,17 2.132.*.*,
172.133.*.*,172.134.*.*,172.135.*.*,172.136.*.*,17 2.137.*.*,
172.138.*.*,172.139.*.*,172.140.*.*,172.141.*.*,17 2.142.*.*,
172.143.*.*,172.144.*.*,172.145.*.*,172.146.*.*,17 2.147.*.*,
172.148.*.*,172.149.*.*,172.150.*.*,172.151.*.*,17 2.152.*.*,
172.153.*.*,172.154.*.*,172.155.*.*,172.156.*.*,17 2.157.*.*,
172.158.*.*,172.159.*.*,172.160.*.*,172.161.*.*,17 2.162.*.*,
172.163.*.*,172.164.*.*,172.165.*.*,172.166.*.*,17 2.167.*.*,
172.168.*.*,172.169.*.*,172.170.*.*,172.171.*.*,17 2.172.*.*,
172.173.*.*,172.174.*.*,172.175.*.*,172.176.*.*,17 2.177.*.*,
172.178.*.*,172.179.*.*,172.180.*.*,172.181.*.*,17 2.182.*.*,
172.183.*.*,172.184.*.*,172.185.*.*,172.186.*.*,17 2.187.*.*,
172.188.*.*,172.189.*.*,172.190.*.*,172.191.*.*

Attatched is a convenient text file with all that on one line. Please, PLEASE, PLEASE read the below disclaimer before you even think about doing anything at all with this!

Quite why anyone could think that this 767-byte nightmare is better than 172.*.*.*, I'm not sure. The two are functionally identical, since the above range gives everyone from AOL access, as does 172.*.*.*. I don't even know if the RC can store almost a kilobyte of IP ranges for a single user.

Oh, well!

Disclaimer: GrowlZ is one of the people who will have to sort this whole sorry mess out in the unlikely event that it goes wrong, and so, if he finds you using it, he will probably have to hate you. Neither GrowlZ nor any other member of the PWA should be construed as supporting or even liking this plan in part, whole, or in any way whatsoever. This IP range is provided in the hope that it is useful, but without warranty or even implicit suitability for any purpose. If this IP range is a) too big for your server to understand, b) too insecure to use safely, or c) not inclusive of other secret America Online IPv4 addresses, GrowlZ and any organisations he may be affiliated with accept no responsibility if your server breaks because of it. NO responsibility whatsoever. NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER. YOU HEAR ME?! Any copyrights or legal privileges that GrowlZ may have had over the huge IP range (insofar as that it may qualify as personal expression under the Berne Convention) are hereby waived to whatever degree GrowlZ may do so. All liability for the use of this hideous IP range is transferred to you, the Valued Customer, to whatever extent your jurisdiction allows. Use it at your own risk. This post was mostly intended to make the point that expecting all AOL users to share any fixed range other than 172.*.*.* is kinda unfair and very, very impractical. Have a really lovely day.

[LogicBot]

I've talked to Jellyfish before. He has a lot of issues with unix. Says he's a dictator, that he makes sure that other games like Graal get shutdown and sues them and all of this stuff.

He can script like mad though.