Proposal: IP Blacklist

[tarantonio]

My proposal is to add a IP blacklist to AAC, very useful to add paypal scammers for example.

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[Znote]

Good idea! Added to 1.5 milestone. May be pushed to 1.6 if Mark suddenly decides to release TFS 1.0 sooner than expected.

I'll probably host a sentralised blacklist and use cURL, self reminder as teaching resource: http://thehungrycoder.com/general/how-to-submit-a-form-using-php-curl-fsockopen.html

[Alvaritos]

Also checking for DNS or just a normal IP blocker?

[Znote]

Good idea @Alvaritos. I was thinking of a plain IP reporting & validation service, but checking the DNS may be useful as well. Tho I am pretty new to this so I am not very sure how to do it.

This will be a pretty complicated service so I will create it in a separate repository, and it will communicate with Znote AAC through a JSON api.

/offtopic: You can look at Znote AAC API sample here: https://github.com/Znote/ZnoteAAC/blob/master/api/modules/samples/blank.php Live sample module: http://napes.zapto.org/api/modules/samples/blank.php Live basic info and installed modules: http://napes.zapto.org/api/

[Alvaritos]

A simple IP checker - reporting system could do the job I think but would be also nice to check for DNS aswell, never used Znote API so no idea whats for :dancers:

[Znote]

Originally intended for communication with otlist -> AAC. So etc otservlist.org could fetch live information such as online list and display it there. How it looks with debugger: http://otland.net/threads/znote-aac-1-4-tfs-0-2-13-tfs-0-3-6-0-4.166722/page-38#post-2021761 Where I got the initial idea: http://otland.net/threads/otlist-net-a-revolution-for-creators-players.201378/page-9#post-2009458

[Alvaritos]

And how should the IP Blacklist work with the API?

[Pwntus]

@Znote should we remove or push this matter to the 1.6 milestone since we rely on you to host the centralized blacklist?

[Znote]

@Pwntus yes, done.