RE: [NeoStats-Devel] [Issue: #214] New - Hostname for Bots using SERVER_NAME

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:39 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [NeoStats-Devel] [Issue: #214] New - Hostname 
> for Bots using SERVER_NAME
> 
> 
> >	Comments:	
> >	Posted By: justin-kLev/[email protected]
> >	At: 5:37 PM on 10-03-2005
> >	    The default hostname for bots seems to be using 
> SERVER_NAME in
> 2.5 series. 
> > This should be changed to NEOSTATS_HOST in 3.0 if its the 
> same behavour
> 
> Hmmm. That explains something. 
> 
> While I was optimising the config file (see ChangeLog) for 
> 3.0 and creating
> the botinfo system, I noticed NEOSTATS_HOST was only used for the root
> client so changed the root to match the other service bots 
> and removed it
> and all support for it in the code. Obviously I fixed it the wrong way
> around but it made sense the way it is now since it was the 
> only way to get
> ircd side /who masking to work for neostats clients. 
> 
> Maybe NEOSTATS_HOST should be neostats@hostname so that /who 
> can work with a
> host mask correctly?
> 

I think we need to be able to specify a "Default" (make it a optional config
item, and roll back to the current 3.0 way, using the server name as the
host) but allow users to change the default options if they wanted.
BUUUUUUT.... Maybe we wait on this item for a while (it's a trivial change
as far as I see it) till we sort out the issues with a new config file
parser? 


> On a related note, late 2.5.x versions and 3.0 support 
> individual settings
> for user and host, but maybe for services clients we should 
> enforce this
> NEOSTATS_HOST option. Only SecureServ currently benefits from 
> support for
> customisation of these fields on a per client basis so the 
> option would
> still be available for introduced clients beyond an initial 
> services bot but
> it would standardise neostats services clients. I suspect 
> few, if any, will
> take the time to customise the user@host for each module but we could
> consider the undernet style masking for services bots as an 
> option to give
> some host variety. 
> 

I've had a few questions on IRC about how to change the host... They all
want funky names etc for their services... :) LOL.


> I need to dig through the forum posts since I seem to remember one
> discussion on hosts at some point but wanted to raise the topic for
> discussion here in any case. 
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
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