Re: Stopping IP data from travelling too far

Christopher J. Shaulis (cjs@netcom.com)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 00:41:39 -0500 (EST)


> Hi, this is a bit of an unusual request I guess, but anyway:
>
> I'd like to stop my Linux machine from being able to communicate with
> other machines more than (say) 10 "hops" away over the internet...

> (Here in NZ, we pay volume charges for data that goes over our overseas
> link. Due to the rather unpredictable layout of both domain names and
> IP numbers, the only way I can easily stop people from accessing overseas
> sites is something like this, since all NZ sites seem to be within 8 hops,
> and most overseas ones at least 14. I can deal with letting specific
> things connect further by using a proxy on another machine. )

Thats a rather interesting delimma that you have there.. I'm curious
to see if you get a reply. =)

Have fun,
Christophar