MaxMind ACL Plugin

This remap plugin provides allow and deny functionality based on the libmaxminddb library and GeoIP2 databases (mmdb format). It requires libmaxminddb to run and the associated development headers in order to build. You can find a sample mmdb-lite database on the maxmind website or provide your own. You must provide a database for any usages and specify it in the configuration file as shown below.

Configuration

The plugin takes a single pparam which is the location of the configuration yaml file. This can either be relative to the ATS configuration directory or an absolute path

map http://example.com/music http://music.example.com @plugin=maxmind_acl.so @pparam=maxmind.yaml

An example configuration

maxmind:
 database: GeoIP2-City.mmdb
 html: deny.html
 allow:
  country:
   - US
  ip:
   - 127.0.0.1
   - 192.168.10.0/20
 deny:
  country:
   - DE
  ip:
   - 127.0.0.1
  regex:
   - [US, ".*\\.txt"]  # Because these get parsed you must escape the escape of the ``.`` in order to have it be escaped in the regex, resulting in ".*\.txt"
   - [US, ".*\\.mp3"]

In order to load an updated configuration while ATS is running you will have to touch or modify the remap.config file in order to initiate a plugin reload to pull in any changes.

Rules

You can mix and match the allow rules and deny rules, however deny rules will always take precedence so in the above case 127.0.0.1 would be denied. The IP rules can take either single IPs or cidr formatted rules. It will also accept IPv6 IP and ranges.

The regex portion can be added to both the allow and deny sections for creating allowable or deniable regexes. Each regex takes a country code first and a regex second. In the above example all requests from the US would be allowed except for those on txt and mp3 files. More rules should be added as pairs, not as additions to existing lists.

Currently the only rules available are country, ip, and regex, though more can easily be added if needed. Each config file does require a top level maxmind entry as well as a database entry for the IP lookups. You can supply a separate database for each remap used in case you use custom ones and have specific needs per remap.

One other thing to note. You can reverse the logic of the plugin, so that it will default to always allowing if you do not supply any allow rules. In the case you supply no allow rules all connections will be allowed through except those that fall in to any of the deny rule lists. In the above example the rule of denying DE would be a noop because there are allow rules set, so by default everything is blocked unless it is explicitly in an allow rule. However in this case the regexes would still apply since they are based on an allowable country.

Optional

There is an optional html field which takes a html file that will be used as the body of the response for any denied requests if you wish to use a custom one.