New Additions
I've been slacking a little in keeping to all up to date on recent additions to the premium service. But I've got a little time today so here's a quick run down of a few new additions to PUBLIC IP Premium.
IPP2P: User requested. The zoneCD can block file sharing protocols per class. IPP2P will block Internet access for eDonkey, eMule, Kademlia, KaZaA, FastTrack, Gnutella, Direct Connect, BitTorrent, AppleJuice, WinMX, SoulSeek, Ares, and AresLite. See http://www.ipp2p.org/
One Time Reg: User requested. You can [try to] restrict users to registering only one username. This is done by using the MAC address of the user's wireless client to confirm that he/she has not already registered. If you require validation and the user fails to validate his account he WILL be given a second chance to register with a good email account.
Registration Filters: User Requested. A registration filter is a regular expression that will be applied to a username upon successful self registration. It is recommended to only use this feature when you require a validated email address for a username. "Pending" accounts are in a special class or validation period until approved or validated. In other words, a user classified as Trusted by a filter rule will not be in the Trusted class until validated.
If the expression is a match, then the user will be classified as defined by the filter rule. If the username does not match any regular expression then that user will be put in your default class. For example, maybe you setup a school and your default class is Protected, but you want to allow the students to have Liberated access. You could add ^.*@school\.com$ to the Liberated Filter and students will be classified as Liberated users. Or maybe you don't trust free email users... You could have your default class set to Liberated, but ^.*@(hotmailmsngmailyahoododgeit)/.com$ (this piece of shit blog keeps stripping my pipes out from between email domains) get thrown in the Protected class.
DHCPd Configuration: I have finally added the ability to configure dhcpd yourself. If you don't know already Eth1's IP and subnet mask can also be re-defined in Zone Control. In my personal setup I am using 10.10.1.1 as the gateway IP, 255.255.252.0 as the subnet mask. DHCPd is configured to use subnet 10.10.0.0, Start IP of 10.10.1.10, and a stop IP of 10.10.3.250. This gives me about 750 IP addresses for clients.
Import users: Three options are available to import users into the system. 1.) Import from the free system. 2.) Upload a CSV file. 3.) SMTP (email attachment) To setup an email address for imports, you need to supply a valid email address with a choice of subject for the email. This combination will act as a kind of username and password. Aside from only accepting emails into the system from this address, the import program will send the results of your import to this email address. As added (needed) security, you will also be required to import a GnuPG public key for your email address.
SpotCheck: Spot check has been around. For those that don't know, Spotcheck has an RSS feed and a flash object in zone control that provides gateway statistics such as active sessions, registered users, uptime, load, etc.. Spotcheck also emails you upon system failure and recovery. Well now you can email Spotcheck. You can send an email to spotcheck@publicip.com with you zone's username as the subject and get an auto-response with your zone stats.
I think that's it. If I think of something else I'll post it.
