Re: Hi, and a couple questions

Hmm.

You might find that with that many connections youll struggle with one 
bot. Most of the networks your size using bopm have one bopm on each 
server (in fact even most networks smaller than yours do the same) - 
this distributes load and means that there is no single point of 
failure. With one bopm, if that bopm splits off the network, your entrie 
network is vulnerable to proxy floods and abuse. With multiple BOPM's 
whilever the server is accessible it is *always* protected.

Thanks,
Brain

Jeff Lec wrote:
> Hi there, bopm users and developers. I'm lec, an oper on the Rizon irc 
> network. We have been having problems with drones/abusive users taking 
> advantage of open proxies to load botnets, avoid bans, and generally 
> being rude, so we are taking an interest in using BOPM to help secure 
> the network. In fact, we currently have it running using the 
> network-bopm perl script and a bot loaded on one of our servers. This 
> leads to the first of my questions.
> 
> We want to have one bopm handle the entire network (around 36k users), 
> because many of the linked servers will have AUP violations for scanning 
>  remote hosts. Will there be any problem with us making a fairly decent 
> number of queries per second to the opm blacklist dns? We'll be setting 
> the one bot to scan, and will be happy to repopt additional open proxies 
> that we come across.
> 
> This leads to the next question. Right now, we're using the 
> network-bopm.pl script and a bopm that relies on services (operserv, to 
> place AKILLS (global klines). We want to have bopm be independent of 
> services and not relying on a perl script to handle all the connection 
> parsing, so I am currently working on getting bopm to connect as a 
> server directly and handle all the connection parsing and kills itself. 
>  It will be running on one of the hosts that allows scanning. Do you 
> have any recommendationsto help the one bot handle the network worth of 
> connections? See any problems with doing it?
> 
> I'd appreciate any advice I can get, since I'm fairly new to bopm. 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> lec
> 
> 

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