[H-GEN] Hmmm.

Eric Hornsby eric at bremer.qld.edu.au
Thu Dec 17 00:57:46 EST 1998


On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Rob Kearey wrote:

> 
> Imagine I have a server, open to the Universe. Imagine that I'm alarmed
> at the traffic it's generating, and I want to limit that traffic.
> Imagine further, for the sake of argument, that I'd like to restrict
> access to this server to sites within Australia.
> 

if you run apache, you could look at the "allow from" directive in
access.conf....hypothetically speaking, of course

this should give you the ability to allow access only from a certain
domain set...eg .au

if you don't run apache....well, maybe there's a similar function in
whatever you have
 
Eric
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