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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2026-06-17 10:44:47 -07:00
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#include <cstddef>
#include <deque>
#include <string>
#include <string_view>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <unordered_set>
// BanTracker records the timestamps of "offenses" -- requests that are
// obviously not finger queries -- per client IP, over a rolling time window.
@@ -73,3 +75,16 @@ private:
// where pf rdr preserves it) and inert where it is not (Docker bridge), with no
// deployment-specific configuration.
bool is_bannable_address(const boost::asio::ip::address &addr);
// Parse a comma-separated list of IP addresses (the value of the
// FINGER_BAN_ALLOWLIST env var) into a set of address strings. Whitespace
// around each entry is trimmed and empty entries are skipped. The strings are
// matched verbatim against boost::asio's address().to_string() output, so use
// canonical forms (e.g. "147.182.255.203", "2a01:4f8:190:7447::2").
//
// Allowlisting exists for trusted aggregating front-ends — notably the
// finger-web proxy, which funnels every federated lookup through one IP. Without
// it, a burst from any single client of the proxy is attributed to the proxy's
// IP and bans the proxy for everyone; per-client abuse protection for that path
// lives in the proxy instead.
std::unordered_set<std::string> parse_ip_allowlist(std::string_view csv);