From 7bde9e03087a97b36afc07dc0d986ccf5440c1b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 13:52:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add note to 'federation_domain_whitelist' option --- docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md b/docs/usage/configuration/config_documentation.md index 502cd9f8236d..92e00c138086 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: