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

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:45:20AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> 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.

Sure, but the point is, isn't the fact that you need to put 3 strings
into a conf file and then NEVER CHANGE THEM EVER kind of sucky?
Especially when the strings are effectively a password, so any
former admin or anyone who ever looked at a conf file knows them?

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