Replying to Avatar Matt Corallo

Americans, now that lnurl is getting some adoption, if you host your own lnurl server make sure you're blocking Iranian, Cuban, North Korean, Russian, and Syrian IP addresses so that you don't wittingly accept a payment from users in those countries! Not worth jail time or fines.

Just got around to setting it up on mine, luckily nginx makes it easy.
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Peter Todd 2y ago

What exactly is the nginx config that fixes this?

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Matt Corallo 2y ago

if ($geoip_country_code = "CU") { return 451; }

if ($geoip_country_code = "IR") { return 451; }

if ($geoip_country_code = "KP") { return 451; }

if ($geoip_country_code = "RU") { return 451; }

if ($geoip_country_code = "SY") { return 451; }

Okay, I know, not perfect, but making a best effort goes a long way.

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Matt Corallo 2y ago

Sorry, you also need to have the geolitecountry.dat from maxmind (eg the geoip-database package in Debian) and set “geoip_country /path/to/file” in your config.