Scott & Lee, Blacklisting prevents individual hosts from being used to dictionary attack a VNC Server. It's a security feature and disabling it is A Bad Thing.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott C. Best > Sent: 01 June 2005 17:33 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Blacklisted IP address > > Lee: > > Heya. Blacklisting only happens if a client tries > and fails to connect repeatedly -- it seems to be about > 5 times in a 10 second interval (empirical data, here; > I'm not actually sure what the "interval" for failures > is). Once blacklisting is triggered, it takes the > "BlacklistTimeout" number of seconds until the server will > again accept connections from that IP address. > > To effectively disable this feature, you can set > the "BlacklistTimeout" registry key in ../WinVNC4 to "0". > But...your email suggests that an IP address is being > "blocked", so maybe it's really an AuthHosts problem, not > a blacklisting one? > > Along these lines...I'm not sure I see the point > of blacklisting the loopback interface. That's like making > sure the front door is securely locked after the bad guys > are already in the house. :) > > -Scott > > > Does anyone know how to unblacklist an IP address that is > > being blocked. > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
