Re: Re: RFC: ircd choice vote

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:09:31PM -0400, Mark Rutherford wrote:
> >I would set a very low priority on the made up hosts (what I call
> >host spoofing).  I can really only see it as useful in the sort of
> >way that freenode use it.
> >
> We dont make up hosts rather scramble the ip address if the user
> did not resolve, or prefix their hostmask if it did resolve with a
> hash of sorts that will remain the same across connects, to avoid
> someone getting banned from a channel and then reconnecting to
> simply get another one. a lot of implementations where I have seen
> the NETWORKNAME-NUMBER.rest.of.host usually assign a new number
> and this is easily used for ban evasion.  (ive seen it exploited
> on poorly designed implementations)

So can every server independently construct the masked host from the
hostname/ip?

Do you use a secret key on every server to keep others from doing
the translation, or is it something that people could figure out
from the code?

> Well, depending on what you guys decide I will stay tuned. if you want 
> to go that route.
> My plan would be to snatch the latest Bahamut (1.8.3) and pull it apart.
> The reason I would not pick CVS is because thats an ongoing project.
> (there are a bunch of known issues in cvs)

So what's your thoughts David?  Are you happy to see this option
added onto the vote?

> Are there any others that would step up to the plate and get the job 
> done... other than us?
> I know Blitzed has got to have bunches of C geeks around :)

Not any that have a lot of time for this project I think, or they
would have done it already, as we've been talking about this for
over a year.

I can certainly help a bit and no doubt a few others can as well.  I
don't have a problem with you being in charge of it as long as
you're listening to what people want. :)

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