Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] ILS, big problem

[Christopher Warner <zanee kernelcode com>]

The last solution is good I think, also while ILS is the topic of the
minute. At some point I was using GM and was beating my head as to why I
couldn't register with the server until maybe 15 hours later realizing
that I had gnomemeeting loaded elsewhere. However the error message
instead of telling me someone else named "x" was connected gave me
"Please register blah blah" or whatever. Obviously this is likely to be
a problem with people who have the same name, which is bound to happen
from time to time. Just thought I'd mention that now as well ;)

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:52, Damien Sandras wrote:
> I agree with you and Dennis, but is it legal to scan people that way?
> Also it takes a lot of time.
> 
> We have anyway 3 solutions :
> - when the server receives a register request, it rejects it if the port
> is inaccessible
> - run a script and ban all misconfigured people
> - if the user is registered to ILS.seconix.com, GM checks of it is
> reachable from the outside through seconix.com, if not, it displays a
> popup and unregisters the user from ILS.
> 
> The last solution seems perhaps the best and the most confortable for
> the server.
> 
> Any comment?
> 
> Le lun 13/10/2003 à 17:43, PUYDT Julien a écrit :
> > On lun, 2003-10-13 at 17:33, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > > Hello to all,
> > > 
> > > I have created a small script in Perl that gets the IP and port from ILS
> > > and that tries to open a socket to the given IP / port.
> > > 
> > > The result is very bad :
> > > 82 hosts are correctly configured on a total of 236 hosts
> > > 
> > > I suppose that some people can do calls even if they are not callable at
> > > all. But that is a big problem. I would rather have an ILS with only 82
> > > registered people, instead of an ILS full of misconfigured people.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > When someone is not registered, you display the list as a message that
> > asks to register.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to run your checking script every once in a while,
> > unregister the malconfigured people, and add them to a list (to be
> > cleaned on a regular basis too)?
> > 
> > Then, when someone tries to list the ils:
> > * if the ip is in the list, the message is "Your firewall is
> > misconfigured: you can't receive calls anyway!";
> > * if not, the usual "Please register ..." message...
> > 
> > Snark
> > 
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