Re: hostmangling in new ircd

On Aug 25, 2005, at 06:53 , Andy Smith wrote:
>> well, have them register to get a masked host.
> We have no way of authenticating who someone is until they identify
> to services, which leaves a large window where their real hosts can
> be seen.  To do this properly would require a lot of work either
> making it so that users can be held off IRC until they're
> authenticated to services, or else writing a new authentication
> system in the ircd just for hostmasking.

A large window for sure, but they could use services' autojoin  
feature to join their channels. Thus they would get their masked host  
before they join.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern