NRPE and ip range in allowed hosts

[Michael Friedrich]

Assaf Flatto wrote:
>    On 23/09/10 12:40, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>    
>> On 09/22/2010 03:47 PM, Assaf Flatto wrote:
>>      
>>>      Hello
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried placing a range ip entry in the allowedhosts directive
>>> of NRPE ?
>>>
>>> Will putting 10.1.0.0/24  work ?
>>>
>>>        
>> No, it won't.
>>
>>      
>>> If not ,does anyone know if is it something that is planned to future
>>> versions of NRPE ?
>>>        
>> It's not. NRPE isn't maintained very rigorously since it Just Works(tm).
>>
>>      
>
> So there is no way to specify a range of servers , one must put all IP's
> individually ?
>    

is_an_allowed_host either awaits hostname(s) to do a dns resolve, or 
checks for an ip list. no ip ranges currently possible from within that 
code base.

possible resolution might be a cidr check, getting lowest and highest ip 
from allowed_range and compare then the converted unsigned long's.

Kind regards,
Michael

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