On 5/14/08, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the moment, I've done a manual hack to HTTPServer.py (adding
> addr.startswith('192.168.') to the IP permission check) to allow local
> IP addresses behind my firewall to download Packages files, but it
> would be nice to have a configurable option in apt-p2p.conf that
> includes a list/netmask/wildcard/something of permissible addresses
> (as was the case for debtorrent).
Thanks for the suggestion. This option had occurred to me before, but
there are issues that prevent me from implementing it, so the
inclusion of only the localhost address was intentional.
The main reason is the obtaining of hashes from downloaded Packages
files uses python-apt, which requires knowledge of the architecture.
You may experience problems with the finding of hashes because of
this, especially if you have multiple architectures accessing apt-p2p
on the same host. However you may not have any problems, in which case
please let me know and I'll consider adding the option.
Because I excluded proxy functionality, I'm also not sure what will
happen if multiple requests come in to apt-p2p at the same time from
different hosts. Again there may be problems, there may not. Adding
support for multiple concurrent connections would also be the hardest
part of implementing this (otherwise simple) option.
> The functions for IP checks in the
> python-ipy package might be helpful in this regard.
Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of that package, and it looks really useful.
Cameron
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