Re: IRC under attack

[Riccardo Mottola via maintainers]

when you can, add grey_gandalf too :)

Re: IRC under attack

[Maciej Bliziński via maintainers]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Maciej Blizi?ski via maintainers  wrote:
> 
> > Basically:
> > /mode #channelname +I $a:
> >
> > Let's see if the new setup works.
> 
> It works, schily and schily_ cannot enter it anymore.

I've added you to the invite list.

I'm currently on vacations, and I sometimes spend >1d away from keyboard, so
I might not react quickly to IRC requests.

I've made Laurent an op on the channel, in order to increase the bus factor.

Are there any other maintainers who are ops on IRC and can help? William?

--Maciej

Re: IRC under attack

[Joerg Schilling via maintainers]

Maciej Blizi?ski via maintainers  wrote:

> Basically:
> /mode #channelname +I $a:
>
> Let's see if the new setup works.

It works, schily and schily_ cannot enter it anymore.

Jörg

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Re: IRC under attack

[Maciej Bliziński via maintainers]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 10:18:45PM +0200, Laurent Blume wrote:
> Le 2018/08/01 23:46 +0200, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński a écrit:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:39:41PM +0200, Laurent Blume wrote:
> 
> > I changed the channel to +r, hopefully it'll make things better.
> > 
> > --Maciej
> > 
> 
> Good evening,
> 
> It doesn't seem to help, sadly :/ That crap is getting worse.
> There must be some magic missing...

I joined the channel and saw bots entering it, and leaving spammy messages.
I also noticed that the +r flag was gone from the channel! I don't know why or
how it happened. I've been disconnected from IRC in the meantime.

I've used instructions from https://botbot.me/how-to-setup-irc-channel/ to make
the channel invite-only. This time I read the instructions carefully (duh!) and
the setup worked. I've added all nicks currently on the channel to the list, and
nobody else. I didn't add Dago, I didn't remember his Freenode nickname.

Dago, see the above instructions to add yourself to the invite list.

Basically:
/mode #channelname +I $a:

Let's see if the new setup works.

--Maciej

Re: IRC under attack

[Laurent Blume via maintainers]

Le 2018/08/01 23:46 +0200, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński a écrit:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:39:41PM +0200, Laurent Blume wrote:

> I changed the channel to +r, hopefully it'll make things better.
> 
> --Maciej
> 

Good evening,

It doesn't seem to help, sadly :/ That crap is getting worse.
There must be some magic missing...

Laurent

 

Re: IRC under attack

[Maciej Bliziński via maintainers]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:39:41PM +0200, Laurent Blume wrote:
> Hello Maciej,
> 
> Thanks for intervening! I'm not very good at IRC, but I understand there
> is a setting that works fairly well, without going to invite-only.
> If I'm correct, it's something that only allows registered users to send
> messages. I believe that's what #rhel does, for example. I'm not in
> favour of invite-only either.
>

I changed the channel to +r, hopefully it'll make things better.

--Maciej

Re: IRC under attack

[Laurent Blume via maintainers]

Hello Maciej,

Thanks for intervening! I'm not very good at IRC, but I understand there
is a setting that works fairly well, without going to invite-only.
If I'm correct, it's something that only allows registered users to send
messages. I believe that's what #rhel does, for example. I'm not in
favour of invite-only either.

Laurent

Le 2018/08/01 22:04 +0200, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński a écrit:
> Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński  > escreveu no dia quarta, 1/08/2018 às 15:46:
> 
> I've set the channel to invite-only.
> 
> 15:45  SET #opencsw MLOCK +i
> 15:45 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- The MLOCK for #opencsw has been
> set to +i.
> 
> 
> After this, I can't join the channel, because I'm not invited. I can't
> invite myself, because I'm not on the channel. So I set the channel back
> to open, and I join the channel. I try to invite myself, and I get a
> message saying that I can't invite myself because I'm already on the
> channel. Great, I change the channel back to invite-only, and I try to
> join. I can't. I'm not invited.
> 
> I changed the channel back to open. Does anybody here know how to manage
> an invite-only channel?
> 
> In the meantime, I don't know if there's actually anything happening on
> #opencsw. Did anybody notice the spam bots?
> 
> Maciej


 

Re: IRC under attack

[Riccardo Mottola via maintainers]

Hi,

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński via maintainers wrote:
In the meantime, I don't know if there's actually anything happening 
on #opencsw. Did anybody notice the spam bots?


if you mean random users getting in and advertising blogs, fake news and 
then disconnecting the yes.


e.g.:

    -->|    Dominian10 (~Dominian@81.171.81.191) has joined #opencsw
    Dominian10    With our IRC ad service you can reach a global 
audience of entrepreneurs and fentanyl addicts with extraordinary 
engagement rates! https://williampitcock.com/
    Dominian10    I thought you guys might be interested in this blog 
by freenode staff member Bryan 'kloeri' Ostergaard 
https://bryanostergaard.com/
    Dominian10    Read what IRC investigative journalists have 
uncovered on the freenode pedophilia scandal 
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Freenodegate
    Dominian10    A fascinating blog by freenode staff member Matthew 
'mst' Trout https://MattSTrout.com/
    |<--    Dominian10 has left freenode (Remote host closed the 
connection)


Riccardo

Re: IRC under attack

[Matchek]

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński  escreveu no dia quarta,
1/08/2018 às 15:46:

> I've set the channel to invite-only.
>
> 15:45  SET #opencsw MLOCK +i
> 15:45 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- The MLOCK for #opencsw has been set
> to +i.
>

After this, I can't join the channel, because I'm not invited. I can't
invite myself, because I'm not on the channel. So I set the channel back to
open, and I join the channel. I try to invite myself, and I get a message
saying that I can't invite myself because I'm already on the channel.
Great, I change the channel back to invite-only, and I try to join. I
can't. I'm not invited.

I changed the channel back to open. Does anybody here know how to manage an
invite-only channel?

In the meantime, I don't know if there's actually anything happening on
#opencsw. Did anybody notice the spam bots?

Maciej

Re: IRC under attack

[Matchek]

I've set the channel to invite-only.

15:45  SET #opencsw MLOCK +i
15:45 -ChanServ(ChanServ@services.)- The MLOCK for #opencsw has been set to
+i.

It means that new users can no longer talk to us via IRC. Should we
announce it somewhere, and tell people to send email to users@ instead?

Maciej