nick: Yes. AllowedIP controls connections from world servers to the logon server. You don't want others to connect with their world server to your logon server. AllowedModIPs controls which IPs can change things in the logon DB. Again, you do not want to expose this to everyone. Security matters.
Deathrobert: You need to extract map files from the client and put them in your Ascent folder
powerbar: Possible only via areatriggers currently
Pingvinen: What's the problem with those two items?