Re: hostmangling in new ircd

On 8/25/05, David Leadbeater <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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..).

How do ops ban users from certain ISP if they can't see a pattern to ban on?