Rework domain verification a bit

[sfan5]

old domain verification:

• if client IP matches the server domain: all good :heavy_check_mark:
  • e.g. 1.2.3.4 announces foo.com which resolves to 1.2.3.4 and 2001:db8::1
• otherwise: failure :x:

problem: the domain verification has been disabled in prod for a long long time since it caused too many false-positive issues A common problem is that the announce request comes over IPv6 (these days often configured automatically), but at the same time the domain does not have an IPv6 address. (most people don't care or have reasons for avoiding it and you also need ipv6_server=true for it to work)

new domain verification:

• if client IP matches domain: all good :heavy_check_mark:
• otherwise, if client is IPv6 and domain only has IPv4 (or inverse): silently tolerated :heavy_check_mark:
  • the problematic situation described above
• otherwise, if there is no domain name: failure :x:
  • e.g. 1.2.3.4 announces 4.5.6.7
• otherwise: pass, but client is given a warning that this will become stricter in the future¹ :warning:
  • e.g. 1.2.3.4 announces foo.com which points to 1.2.3.5

new domain verification (intended future change, next month):

• if client IP matches domain: all good :heavy_check_mark:
• otherwise, if client is IPv6 and domain only has IPv4 (or inverse): silently tolerated :heavy_check_mark:
• otherwise: failure :x:

¹: there are a bunch of big servers that accidentally fail this check. hence the grace period.

[swagtoy]

I assume this is for all the spam that we were manually deboosting? If so, ship it.

Does this rely on the reported domain from the host? I forget the name of this but i.e. IRC servers simply set the vhost to this, but they usually ignore it. Some satellite ISP's also report different results. If this has nothing to do with that then we are good.

HOWEVER, a flag for servers to decide on a hard IP domain check might be a good idea, but i think minetest.conf handles that so this note is dumb

[sfan5]

I assume this is for all the spam that we were manually deboosting? If so, ship it.

While this fixes a very obvious vector for fake servers, that wasn't really the intent.

Does this rely on the reported domain from the host? I forget the name of this but i.e. IRC servers simply set the vhost to this, but they usually ignore it.

That's called reverse DNS and it's not used here.

[swagtoy]

That's called reverse DNS and it's not used here.

Yeah thats what i was thinking of. Thank you.

An option to maybe enforce that per server... is this a bad idea? I can't think of a use of it though