Re: hostmangling in new ircd

On 24 Aug 2005, at 11:01, Andy Smith wrote:

> There are 36 alphanumeric digits (0-9, a-z) which could be used for
> the mask but it currently only uses the 16 hex digits (0-9, a-f).
>
> If the mask were converted from base 16 to base 36 then it would be
> smaller.  4 characters instead of 8.  IPs would be 17 characters
> long instead of 29.  Worth it?

I think so, I'd rather the host was a short as possible so the mangled 
hosts don't look too ugly.

Maybe we could take the vowels out (or at least 4 of them - if my maths 
is correct) so the resulting hosts look less like words (in English 
anyway..).