I feel we're approaching the pedantic here.
Maybe servers should cache MOTD information then ?
Its not like it'd be hard to propogate an update - and the MOTD is
important when looking for bot servers, etc.
Mark.
At 18:51 20/08/2001 +1200, you wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:04:10 +1200 you wrote:
>
> > [10:59] <BlakJ|Wrk> ./motd paris*
> > [10:59] <BlakJ|Wrk> Permission Denied: You're not an IRC operator
> >
> > Any reason why motd was part of the pl14/15 mods?
> > Remote MOTD would be useful to guests I should think.
> We did the same with ircd-hybrid-7. One of the ideas of
> server hiding is that you should not be able to determine
> whether a server has disconnected from the network
> temporarily so you cannot watch who splits off, and knowing
> what server split off, deduce what server the people who
> split off are on. Of course, you could just put a client on
> every server to determine what server split, but it is at
> least significantly more difficult to work out what server
> people are on and hence DoS that server.
> Obviously, if you allow remote MOTD and a server splits off,
> unless you cache the MOTD for every server on the network,
> you must disable remote MOTD or you could just do a remote
> MOTD to decide if a server has split off.
>
