On Monday 11 August 2003 01:08 am, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:21:38PM -0400, Greg Wooledge spake thusly:
> > You could use OS-level firewalling to prevent the nodes from talking to
> > anything that's not on the LAN.
>
> Better to just hack fred not to use nodes outside the local LAN and give
> that series it's own version number series so it won't talk to anything
> else. Counting on people not to let the outside world leak in is not going
> to work.
This would be better as a configuration option than hardcoded, so you can 
upgrade properly, and so anyone with a different IP range can use it without 
recompiling.
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