Add FINGER_BAN_ALLOWLIST to exempt trusted front-end IPs from banning
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The per-IP ban tracker treats every globally-routable client equally, but an aggregating front-end like the finger-web proxy funnels the whole internet's federated lookups through a single IP. A burst from any one client of the proxy (or a load test) is then attributed to the proxy's IP and, once it crosses the failure threshold, the daemon blocks the proxy — taking out finger lookups for everyone. Per-client abuse protection for the proxied path belongs in the proxy (which now rate-limits per real client IP), so the daemon should trust it. Add a FINGER_BAN_ALLOWLIST env var (comma-separated IPs). Allowlisted addresses are marked non-trackable in the listener, so their connections are never blocked and never recorded as offenses. Unset = unchanged behaviour. - parse_ip_allowlist() in ban.cpp (trims entries, skips blanks) + unit tests - listener() consults the set when computing 'trackable' - documented in docker-compose.yml and DOCKER.md
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@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ services:
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# Run as root to bind it. (Alternative: setcap cap_net_bind_service on the
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# binary in the image to keep it non-root.)
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user: "0:0"
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# FINGER_BAN_ALLOWLIST: comma-separated client IPs that are never tracked or
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# banned. Use it for trusted aggregating front-ends — e.g. the finger-web
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# proxy, which funnels every federated lookup through one IP; without an
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# allowlist a burst from any single client of the proxy is attributed to the
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# proxy and bans it for everyone (per-client abuse protection for that path
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# lives in the proxy). Leave unset for a directly-exposed daemon.
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# environment:
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# - FINGER_BAN_ALLOWLIST=203.0.113.10,2001:db8::10
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volumes:
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- ./users:/var/finger/users
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restart: unless-stopped
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