From 1e67191a79a06fb4031b17c24b4621c066345182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 11:55:29 +0300 Subject: Add note to 'federation_domain_whitelist' option (#16416) --- docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md index 502cd9f823..92e00c1380 100644 --- a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md +++ b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md @@ -1190,6 +1190,11 @@ inbound federation traffic as early as possible, rather than relying purely on this application-layer restriction. If not specified, the default is to whitelist everything. +Note: this does not stop a server from joining rooms that servers not on the +whitelist are in. As such, this option is really only useful to establish a +"private federation", where a group of servers all whitelist each other and have +the same whitelist. + Example configuration: ```yaml federation_domain_whitelist: -- cgit 1.4.1