Re: hostmangling in new ircd

Andryan Gunawan wrote:
> 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?

I'd assume opers and/or admins would be able to see real host as well, 
and ban on those patterns.

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