Re: the right ircd for Blitzed

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:41:13AM +0100, mailings-Jg3DV2PnL/[email protected] wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:39:23 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> |  We now have the ability to have twp IPv6 public irc servers but we
> |  can't because our current ircd doesn't support it.
> 
> Realistically, how many users would connect with IPv6. 99.9% of people
> are tunnelling it over IPv4 anyway. Is it worth it?

It's not really about what the majority of users want, if it were
then there should just be one or two IRC network and certainly
Blitzed should not exist because we do things that only benefit a
handful of IRC users.

In reality we do things because we feel they would be interesting
for us to do.

> |  We could be offering SSL client connections but we can't because
> |  our current ircd doesn't support it.
> 
> Does anyone really want this? What usage does it get where it is
> available?

As above, but also, the point of SSL is that it is very useful in a
small number of cases.

> |  We could be masking hosts, we could be offering vhosts.  Those
> |  services are controversial and should be voted on, but at the
> |  moment we can't even begin tot hink of offering them because our
> |  current ircd does not support them.
> 
> People who really want to vhost have bouncers elsewhere anyway.

Not judging by the number of requests we get for this in #help.
Also note that many IRC networks (including Freenode, so that rules
out it only being a "toy" feature) will do this already.

> |  Why are we not using Unreal until such time as we have come up
> |  with something better?
> |
> |  Please give reasons beyond "Unreal sucks!"
> 
> Because nobody is actually that unhappy with the current IRCD?

The people who run this network do want a better ircd, but most talk
so far (on irc) has been about either writing one from scratch or
adding the desirable features to either ircd-ratbox or bahamut
1.8.x.

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