On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:16:52PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Attacking users on IRC is using CTCP PING which is different.  CTCP's
> are a client to client protocol and as such aren't really part of the
> IRC core protocol and IRC servers (usually[1]) don't realise they even exist.
> The IRC Server uses a different protocol for it's keep alive and for
> some servers, no spoof pings.

It was attacked anyway, because flooding a user especially inband and out of
band will delay the pong so long, that the server resetes the connection.

Greetings
Bernd
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