Restricting host accesses

Dr. Joel M. Hoffman joel "at" exc.com
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:13:33 +0000


>       Anybody working on (or thinking of) restricting host access by IP addre
>Specifically for the Windows ports - I can manage the Unix side OK as is.
>Hein Roehrig <hein "at" acm.org> made some inroads on this, but he was only 
>interested in restricting to localhost - I would like more flexibility.
>Alas as a non-programmer my C++ efforts are laughable........

I think putting IP access controls inside of VNC is the wrong way to
go.  Better to use a separate filter program.  This is standard
practice under Unix.  Surely something similar exists for Win95.

-Joel
(joel "at" exc.com)