Subj : Marking a node as black balled
To   : Vincent Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sun May 15 2022 04:43 pm


Hello Vincent!

15 May 22 19:39, you wrote to all:

VC> Is there a way within mbse of setting a specific node address to be
VC> totally ignore just as soon as its address line is received ?

If they always call from the same IP address, just configure your firewall to
reject connections from that IP.

VC> Why, I have a node in Switzerland who polls every minute of all hours
VC> and some time twice at the same time with a bad password.

VC> Now I did set on, every debug setting for almost everything to try and
VC> show the password being used but to no avail - but I am sure that
VC> there was a setting to get passwords used displayed if the did not
VC> match. Cannot find it now with v1.0.8.

Try disabling MD5 for that node; otherwise the password is never sent in the
clear.

Andrew

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