Re: hostmangling in new ircd

On Aug 24, 2005, at 17:22 , Mrten wrote:
> if i, as a channel-op, want to report logs as evidence to a third
> party, i have to ask the admins for help to translate the mangled
> hostnames to real ones. do the admins really want to meddle in that?

That's indeed a valid point.

> does dcc chat/ping/etc still work?

Yep, because the IP is exchanged with the CTCP protocol between the  
two clients.

> what does *the network* have to gain from hostmasking users? aren't we
> making it ourselves more difficult? aren't we making it chanops more
> difficult?

No we aren't, except of the point you made above. The same IP gets  
the same cloak, you get exactly the same measures like before (like  
banning the whole ISP block), the hosts just look a bit more ugly.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern