On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 18:41 +0000, Robin Cloutman wrote:
> Ian Kumlien wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 02:22 +0000, Robin Cloutman wrote:
> >>Ian Kumlien wrote:
> >>>On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 16:55 +0000, Robin Cloutman wrote:
> [snip
> >>>Anyways, mirc and other brain dead irc client implementations uses all
> >>>ports *including* <1024 that is defined as reserved for services. Thus,
> >>>whatever it is that trues to dcc to you sucks.
> >>
> >>*Except* that amirc doesn't care what port it's using, or even if it's a 
> >>bad IP - so long as it's got the right format amirc will sit there like 
> >>a lemon trying to connect!
> > 
> > I really really really doubt it, test it to prove me wrong =).
> 
> Heh, you of all people should know about writing a plugin to tell you 
> about bad values being passed in a dcc send (ip ranges and/or port 
> numbers)...
Yep, did that for xchat since it lacked it. And as i said i'm pretty
confident that amirc has checks for low port numbers, i would actually
be very surprised if it lacked it... mIRC and other ppl inspired by mirc
seem to lack the "what source port i can use" clue... =P

> Hrm... how about a ctcp-send protocol, bet the server admins would kill 
> me though ;-P

Well, dcc is a ctcp, ie it starts and ends with \001.

> Robin
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