Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Major ILS change

[Johnny Strom <jonny strom netikka fi>]

Craig Southeren wrote:
> I sent a suggestions earlier today, which does not appear to got t the
> list.
>
> My suggestion was to consider denying registrations from endpoints
> providing an IP address that is in the IANA ranges reserved for private
> LANs, i.e. 10/8, 172.16/12, and 192.168/16. This would weed out users
> who are trying to register from behind NAT firewall but have not enabled
> some kind of NAT traveral. There is no way that anyone who sends addresses
> in those ranges to the ILS can possibly receive calls, so it a safe bet
> to disable them.

Yes this is a better idea.

> If an appropriate error message could also be sent to the user, so much
> the better

Yes I think a message is needed that includes an appropriate error 
message becouse new users have little chance to figure out what is going on.

>    Craig
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:20:19 +0100
> PUYDT Julien <julien puydt laposte net> wrote:
>
>
> > On lun, 2004-03-15 at 08:06, Johnny Strom wrote:
> >
> >
> > > This have one bad side effect at least for me.
> > > A lot of problems in GM have I noticed from users calling
> > > from the ILS now there will not be any test calls from users
> > > with random configurations anymore. Because all the users on
> > > ILS now have a working system so they will not try to call me or someone 
> > >  else.
> >
> > I don't think so. Quite the contrary, in fact: they'll know right away
> > that they have a big configuration problem. And once they can be called,
> > and can register, they can get on testing just like before.
> >
> > The new scheme doesn't ensure they have a perfect configuration; it just
> > ensure it passes basic sanity checks!
> >
> > Snark on #gnomemeeting
> >
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