Re: [Coder-Com] suggestion of a WHOIS modification

2003-01-05 Thread The Storm Surfer
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 02:28:53PM -0500, Alocin wrote: > About the *.user.undernet.org and the fact that it is nice to protect > yourself against attacks, it is also a pain for channel ops to find out who > is doing what and to find out to whom they should complain if they want to > inform an ISP

Re: [Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread Fre
> About /Gen comment. We do not have any op of flood problem, the problem is > the DDoS one and since you admit that a user cannot directly act upon this, > at least when we contacted responsible ISP, those computers wheren't use > anymore to flood us. Yes this could seem pointless since attackers

Re: [Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread Richard Smith
>> opers that have that much time to offer... And he would need to act during >> the attack, fact that is quite problematic since the pples who are attacked >> aren't online at the moment of the attack. > > how about having in cservice, for each account, the last few logins with > real nick!user@h

Re: [Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread Richard Smith
> I still have difficulties about the concept of considering the idea of > showing IPs to ops on a channel a security breach, but i heard some > interesting ideas in the few last days... 1. First of all, due to the privacy concerns coder-com really isnt the place for this, it's up to the undernet

Re: [Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread bas
> opers that have that much time to offer... And he would need to act during > the attack, fact that is quite problematic since the pples who are attacked > aren't online at the moment of the attack. how about having in cservice, for each account, the last few logins with real nick!user@host, IP,

[Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread Alocin
I still have difficulties about the concept of considering the idea of showing IPs to ops on a channel a security breach, but i heard some interesting ideas in the few last days... Some were talking about complaining to Undernet autorities so they would be able to retrace who's who and contact IS

Re: [Coder-Com] Support Channel announcement..opers please go there!

2003-01-05 Thread Carlo Wood
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:35:04PM +, Chris Crowther wrote: > You have no idea how GLINEs work, do you. They *expire*. Why do I only see this kind of tone on the undernet mailinglists? People - lets try to treat eachother with respect for a change, no matter how stupid the people are th