Re: hostmangling in new ircd

Andy Smith <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:27:52 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.blitzed.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:47:54AM +1000, Andryan Gunawan wrote:
> On 8/25/05, David Leadbeater <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On 24 Aug 2005, at 11:01, Andy Smith wrote:
> > > 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?

What is the problem with banning *.some.isp.com when you see
blitzed-w52g1.some.isp.com?

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