Hello,

Firstly, kindly thank You to Mr Raymond Toy for his patience when I tried to learn CMUCL. Now is time to do something concrete, i.e. to build a CMUCL-chain.

Some elements are already completed (very simple version). The goal is to create a commercial CMUCL-chain, not easy, but worth trying.

I would need some help with CREATE-INET-LISTENER. CREATE-INET-LISTENER is the ports opener, a critical moment from the cyber-security standpoint.

Explanation of the DEFUN below, the proposals inside, and the questions at the very end.

The names like "af-inet-mod-1" and "create-inet-listener-mod-1" are in fact COPIES from sources. I have only added :ALIEN, :C-CALL :UNIX descriptions, to know what is coming from where.

create-inet-listener-mod-1 = CREATE-INET-LISTENER, in sources.

(DEFUN create-inet-listener-mod-1 (port &OPTIONAL (kind :STREAM) &KEY (host 0) reuse-address (backlog 5)) (LET ((socket (CREATE-INET-SOCKET kind)) (addr (IF (STRINGP host) (HOST-ENTRY-ADDR (OR (LOOKUP-HOST-ENTRY host) (ERROR 'socket-error-mod-1 :FORMAT-CONTROL (INTL:GETTEXT "Unknown host: ~S.") :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS (LIST host) :ERRNO (UNIX:UNIX-ERRNO)))) host)))

(WHEN reuse-address (MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (optval errno) (set-socket-option-mod-1 socket sol-socket-mod-1 so-reuseaddr-mod-1 1) (OR optval (ERROR 'socket-error-mod-1 :FORMAT-CONTROL (INTL:GETTEXT "Error ~S setting socket option on socket ~D.") :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS (LIST (UNIX:GET-UNIX-ERROR-MSG errno) socket) :ERRNO errno))))

(ALIEN:WITH-ALIEN ((sockaddr inet-sockaddr)) (SETF (ALIEN:SLOT sockaddr 'family) af-inet-mod-1) (SETF (ALIEN:SLOT sockaddr 'port) (HTONS port)) (SETF (ALIEN:SLOT sockaddr 'addr) (HTONL addr)) (WHEN (MINUSP (UNIX:UNIX-BIND socket (ALIEN:ALIEN-SAP sockaddr) (ALIEN:ALIEN-SIZE inet-sockaddr :BYTES))) (LET ((errno (UNIX:UNIX-ERRNO))) (UNIX:UNIX-CLOSE socket) (ERROR 'socket-error-mod-1 :FORMAT-CONTROL (INTL:GETTEXT "Error binding socket to port ~A: ~A") :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS (LIST port (UNIX:GET-UNIX-ERROR-MSG)) :ERRNO errno))))

#| ADRIAN PASIEKA's proposals to the :STREAM below.

Adding some analytics to the :STREAM below, to see all incoming traffic from an OPEN-NETWORK-STREAM like:

- the IP incoming number from OPEN-NETWORK-STREAM from an external machine, - time of connection

Each new connection would be added to a LIST, and sent to the file. This would create a history of all connections to CREATE-INET-LISTENER.

Additionaly, each CREATE-INET-LISTENER port could have a list of allowed external IP-s. Otherwise anybody can access it with OPEN-NETWORK-STREAM, from any external CMUCL, not good.

There will be many thousands computers in the CMUCL-chain networks. We don't need spamers/hackers scanning all CMUCL-chain ports all the time. |#

(WHEN (EQ kind :STREAM) (WHEN (MINUSP (UNIX:UNIX-LISTEN socket backlog)) (LET ((errno (UNIX:UNIX-ERRNO))) (UNIX:UNIX-CLOSE socket) (ERROR 'socket-error-mod-1 :FORMAT-CONTROL (INTL:GETTEXT "Error listening to socket: ~A") :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS (LIST (UNIX:GET-UNIX-ERROR-MSG)) :ERRNO errno)))) socket) )

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QUESTION:

Is there any existing solution to the proposals above? Or, is there any specialist who could advise as much as possible?

Thank You.