Re: ircd development ideas (was Re: Re: RFC: ircd choice vote)

On Aug 7, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> But it isn't possible for every ircd to rehash simultaneously and
> any users who connect while the net is in an inconsistent state
> would have different hosts on different servers.

Well I don't think that there is an inconsistent state. All server  
admins get those keys and enter it into the config file before they  
link. And they don't get changed. (Without a change there is also no  
race condition.) By the way: When you change the cloak keys new users  
could get the same hosts as existing users as the former are not  
getting new hostmasks.

/* Cloak keys should be the same at all servers on the network.
  * They are used for generating masked hosts and should be kept secret.
  * The keys should be 3 random strings of 5-100 characters
  * (10-20 chars is just fine) and must consist of lowcase (a-z),
  * upcase (A-Z) and digits (0-9) [see first key example].
  */

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern