On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:36:21 Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:04, Matthew Stringer wrote:

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Is it possible to configure IPTables to only allow connections from a particular country?

But seriously, it's called 'the internet' for a reason, and you may find you get a more sympathetic response if you can tell us why you would want to do such a thing. Usually projects like that are associated with dicatatorships - I assume you have something more innocent than mere xenophobia on hand?

OK I run a free online game service in the UK it's open to anyone to play. If a game has a custom map and you download that from the game server it takes ages so I have all the maps on a separate webserver. However it's constantly being leached to a ridiculous extent (always at my concurrent limit in Apache) by people who just want the files, if I check their IP's they're never coming from the UK. I don't have unlimited bandwidth so have to restrict it. But the problem there is that the UK based people who are playing the game can't access the webserver as all the slots are constantly used. I can't password it as the wget function of the games doesn't support it. My view is that if you're not playing my game servers you shouldn't be downloading my game files. Cheers Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 13:05:10 David SMITH wrote:

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:17:23PM +0000, Matthew Stringer wrote:

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I run a free online game service in the UK it's open to anyone to play.

However it's constantly being leached to a ridiculous extent (always at my concurrent limit in Apache) by people who just want the files, if I check their IP's they're never coming from the UK.

I don't have unlimited bandwidth so have to restrict it. But the problem there is that the UK based people who are playing the game can't access the webserver as all the slots are constantly used.

My view is that if you're not playing my game servers you shouldn't be downloading my game files.

Surely then, it would be a better policy to restrict downloads to those who are actually playing the game? E.g. use some kind of "port knocking" style scheme where only IPs that are connected to the game server can get to the webserver?

That would work however the game server and the web server are in different locations I didn't want any traffic going over the GS's network other than game traffic. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 14:39 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:

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My view is that if you're not playing my game servers you shouldn't be downloading my game files.

I'm assuming your game maps are available over a public URL. How about handing out one-time URLs only to people who play the game?

Could it be that web crawlers, such as google search engine, are searching his web? If that's so, a simple password scheme would work - no, hold on, I think he said the game didn't support it. Another method to impede crawlers or robots, perhaps? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF5FFPtTMYHG2NR9URAoWkAJ0Ww5Wb46edREHEBAWNQPmUjTek0ACfcxFg W+iLAb9PqydciZ3AdaSeLiU= =rNPv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Quoting Fergus Wilde : [snip]

You do realise that many of the people who read this list are dreadful foreigners too, don't you? Some of them are even the type of chap who would throw another chap's tea into a harbour and declare themselves independent! However, they soon came crawling back, begging to be ruled by King George again ... oh, no, wait a minute ... maybe they didn't.

Unfortunately, we in the US seem to be ruled by King George without having crawled back. But sometimes it seems the UK is ruled by King George also thru a puppet/proxy/patsy. As the Grateful Dead say, "What a long strange trip it's been." ;) Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

Quoting Fergus Wilde : [snip]

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You do realise that many of the people who read this list are dreadful foreigners too, don't you? Some of them are even the type of chap who would throw another chap's tea into a harbour and declare themselves independent! However, they soon came crawling back, begging to be ruled by King George again ... oh, no, wait a minute ... maybe they didn't.

Unfortunately, we in the US seem to be ruled by King George without having crawled back. But sometimes it seems the UK is ruled by King George also thru a puppet/proxy/patsy. As the Grateful Dead say, "What a long strange trip it's been."

;) Jeffrey

LOL It's nothing personal, if I could run a global game service I would but when you have a web server that's using nearly 100Mb/s of bandwidth continually 24/7 the people that own that bandwidth start to notice! Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

Quoting Fergus Wilde : [snip]

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You do realise that many of the people who read this list are dreadful foreigners too, don't you? Some of them are even the type of chap who would throw another chap's tea into a harbour and declare themselves independent! However, they soon came crawling back, begging to be ruled by King George again ... oh, no, wait a minute ... maybe they didn't.

Unfortunately, we in the US seem to be ruled by King George without having crawled back. But sometimes it seems the UK is ruled by King George also thru a puppet/proxy/patsy. As the Grateful Dead say, "What a long strange trip it's been."

Fortunately (!) he seems to only have control of our military. I'm sure all that'll change under Cameron. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org