[Coder-Com] General News

2001-04-30 Thread Perry Lorier
This is just a friendly note to let people know what projects are going on that coder-com is in some way involved with. Obviously we're continuing updating the Undernet 2.10.10 Branch of the undernet daemon, with it's rather uh "Controversal" features. On the other hand, we have several bug fixe

Re: [Coder-Com] Suggestion

2001-05-01 Thread Perry Lorier
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:51:51PM +0300, n3tguy wrote: > Well let's consider that some other networks uses ircu as their server > software and NOT only undernet. > In general I'm open to helping other networks with what they do, I obviously won't go out of my way to help them, but if theres a r

Re: [Coder-Com] Protecting client servers -- er, how?

2001-05-01 Thread Perry Lorier
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:35:35PM +0200, Lou Cephyr wrote: > Quite clear and understandeble, ofcourse such commands > should be removed, the thing is that STATS are used for > legit things by "advanced" users. Like: m, p, t, z, u. Isn't it > possible to allow the useage of these for users? > Te

Re: [Coder-Com] CNOTICE and CPRIVMSG

2001-05-03 Thread Perry Lorier
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:30:59AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for clearing that up. > > How should a client be programmed such that the receive queue never grows > above CLIENT_FLOOD? Should it control the amount of text per given time? > The client has no knowledge of how large the

Re: [Coder-Com] Kick transaction

2001-06-23 Thread Perry Lorier
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 11:59:36AM -0400, Daniel Karrels wrote: > I have a question about zombie: > > // -- > // P10 CHECK POINT: > // If the KICK message is issued for a user on the same > // server of the sender, the KICK is authoritative, and > // we may proceed to remove t

[Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change committed

2001-06-25 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:43:21AM -0400, Kev wrote: > > @@ -120,7 +124,9 @@ > > */ > > > > #define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHOIS_SERVERNAME > > +#define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHOIS_IDLETIME > > #define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHO_SERVERNAME > > +#define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHO_HOPCOUNT > > > > /* CFV-165 - Hiding Nonessentia

Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change committed

2001-06-26 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:26:33PM -0400, Amarande wrote: > At 09:46 AM 6/26/01 +1200, you wrote: > > >Yeah, so you can't tell if someone's on your local server. You can however > >still /whois nick nick and find out their idle time, if they're on a local > >or remote server. > > Bad idea. >

Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change committed

2001-06-26 Thread Perry Lorier
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:15:23PM -0400, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: > It's been that way forever, AFAIK. -- Jonathan No, James is correct, the feature is still there if you do /whois nick nick, it's just not shown on /whois nick. We've already seen people setting up bots to try and figure out wh

Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change committed

2001-06-27 Thread Perry Lorier
> > > > @@ -120,7 +124,9 @@ > > > > */ > > > > > > > > #define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHOIS_SERVERNAME > > > > +#define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHOIS_IDLETIME > > > > #define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHO_SERVERNAME > > > > +#define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHO_HOPCOUNT > > > > > > > > /* CFV-165 - Hiding Nonessential information fro

Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change committed

2001-06-27 Thread Perry Lorier
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:20:31AM -0400, Kev wrote: > > @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ > > " USERIP"\ > > " CPRIVMSG"\ > > " CNOTICE"\ > > -" MAP" \ > > " MODES=%i" \ > > " MAXCHANNELS=%i" \ > >

[Coder-Com] Current Confusions

2001-07-06 Thread Perry Lorier
At the moment a lot of people appear to be confused, or misinformed about ircu. I would like to take the time to correct this misconceptions. 1) Undernets IRC Daemon prevents people from doing a remote whois. This is wrong, as a normal user you can still remote whois, however you can only query

Re: [Coder-Com] im banned

2001-07-16 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:36:32PM +1200, Gavin Grieve wrote: > Yes. Today I bought 2 bottles of coke. Then I sat down and watched > episodes 1, 2, and 3 of Stargate: SG1. > Ok, we occasionly get people posting to the wrong list. If someone does that, ignore them, no need to point out that it

Re: [Coder-Com] BURST with too few params in u2.10.11

2001-07-16 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:08:51PM -0400, Kev wrote: > *** Net junction: Test0.undernet.org Test1.undernet.org > *** Nick collision on KevveK (freebsd.testnet.org 994978070 <- Test1.undernet > .org 995309412 (Different user@host)) > *** Completed net.burst from Test1.undernet.org. > *** Test1.

[Coder-Com] Status updates

2001-07-19 Thread Perry Lorier
Can we have a short description from everyone thats currently working on a project stating whats been done since last time? (Gte/ripper/Mr Bean I'll let kev off the hook - he's been on holiday ;)

Re: [Coder-Com] +ei modes

2001-07-20 Thread Perry Lorier
> I understand there's considerable animosity towards the "other" > codebranch that the new rfc's were written against, especially since our > input wasn't sought. > > That said, is there a big difference in specs? Would it be possible to > bridge the gap in upcoming ircu releases (at lea

Re: [Coder-Com] CService site bug report

2001-07-20 Thread Perry Lorier
> http://cservice.undernet.org/live/www.websurf.ro/personal , probably because When you set the URL, you should use http:// first. eg: http://www.websurf.ro/personal not: www.websurf.ro/personal Go use /msg X set url and fix it :)

Re: [Coder-Com] suggestion.

2001-08-04 Thread Perry Lorier
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:01:15AM -0400, Josh Rollyson wrote: > Could you please send the 005 numeric along with VERSION requests, so that > the information in the 005 numeric can be obtained without a reconnect. I believe 2.10.11 does this already (although it isn't released yet)

Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Help] SMS Chat

2001-08-06 Thread Perry Lorier
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Re: [Coder-Com] Probably a dumb question...

2001-08-14 Thread Perry Lorier
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:50:28PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote: > But is there any way to get the servers to compare eachothers topics and > refresh them if one is missing on net.burst? > > You must have noticed that the topics quite often are seen on one server > and not another after netsplits..

Re: [Coder-Com] some recent change

2001-08-14 Thread Perry Lorier
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 06:23:00PM +1200, Michael Bordignon wrote: > this post was bought to you by the words CFV-165 and pl14 ( evil > pl14!@#) > > Imprimerie, it was an "initiative" (notice the quotes) to attempt to stop > the DoS of Undernet leafs/hubs. (they haven't realised the ip's are stil

[Coder-Com] Just something to add to my TODO

2001-08-17 Thread Perry Lorier
Something to add to my todo, and it's easy posting in here so I remember. Both check_pings, and the resolver reset the nextCheck to 0/1 on an incomming connection meaning that if a connection arrives then a full clientlist/resolver list walk is performed. These should probably be: x=MIN(x,10), s

Re: [Coder-Com] Automatic bot detection and blocking

2001-08-17 Thread Perry Lorier
> Im neither advocating for or against such detection > serverside, Im just wondering if the above example > is the way to go or if there is a better way... We had a brief discussion about this a while ago on undernet asking if admins would like automatic bot detection, and the general concensous

Re: [Coder-Com] MOTD

2001-08-21 Thread Perry Lorier
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:28:48AM -0400, Py Fivestones wrote: > Odd, I thought people used IRC because they didn't want to have to play > with web pages loading and refreshing. The server list is now a web page, > MOTD's now web pages, why not just toss the IRCd and force everyone onto > web b

Re: [Coder-Com] MOTD

2001-08-21 Thread Perry Lorier
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:50:52PM -0600, Matthew S . Hallacy wrote: > > > > Best tool for the job. IRC is overloaded and bloated as it is. Cutting out > > some of the unnecessary features is a *good thing*. Not that I agree that > > The problem is that you aren't removing the commands, you'r

Re: [Coder-Com] Enhancement request

2001-08-23 Thread Perry Lorier
> 1. It would be nice to be able to have a utility to ping the server of the > user, regardless of what it is. This would assist the average channel op in > determining if there is a *network* lag that is causing a user to be slow in > responding, or if the user has turned off CTCP replies. >

Re: [Coder-Com] MaxChanBans

2001-08-27 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:31:20AM +0100, Shaun O'keefe wrote: > Guys, > > Any chance in the next release we can extend the maxchan bans from 30 to > something like 50 ? > Undernet has a limit of about 1k per channel of state it tries to save. If we up this then it means more memory used on al

Re: [Coder-Com] idea for the servers

2001-08-28 Thread Perry Lorier
> Now, i've got an idea: > As you are able to send a notice that it has been disabled, why > don't you let the server reply with a file with a sorted server list? > (that of course doesn't contain the for the user non-usable routers) > Coz it's hard keeping all the servers up to date :) If you'

Re: [Coder-Com] ftp.coder-com.undernet.org

2001-08-31 Thread Perry Lorier
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:30:13PM -0500, Joseph Bongaarts wrote: > FYI, I actually got around to updating the ftp site. It has pl15, > pl16-beta, and .11-alpha now. > Thank you! -- QOTD: "I used to jog, but the ice kept bouncing out of my glass."

Re: [Coder-Com] Install Error

2001-09-06 Thread Perry Lorier
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:40:40AM -0400, Webmaster wrote: > I am installing 2.10.10.pl15. I get the following error at config. > "configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH". What do I need to do > to fix this? A compiler. :) the configure script is looking for a compiler and c

Re: [Coder-Com] Suggestions

2001-09-08 Thread Perry Lorier
>I have a suggestion for the next version of IRCD. With the actual >version, we cannot see others users server. This's not very cool... This was mandated by admins. Sorry. >And another thing, please make the idle time visible !!! It should still be visible by: /whois nick nick

Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change committed

2001-09-20 Thread Perry Lorier
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:59:41AM -0400, Kev wrote: > > +extern int mr_error(struct Client*, struct Client*, int, char*[]); > > extern int mr_error(struct Client*, struct Client*, int, char*[]); > > *ahem* :) Funky! Just in case we need more errors! :) -- I demand IMPUNITY!

Re: [Coder-Com] Server kill question

2001-12-25 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:55:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > Am looking for a bit of advice regarding servers killing remote clients. > Specifically, I am writing a NickServ type module for GNUworld and need to > kill clients if they exceed their time without authing. The problem is >

Re: [Coder-Com] Make problem

2002-01-22 Thread Perry Lorier
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:20:06PM -, rob wrote: > This problem (and solution) seesm to keep coming up. Is there any way of > automating the addition of those flags ? > IIRC 2.10.10 attempts to guess if needs this libraries, it appears to fail in some circumstances, I don't know why. Kev's r

Re: [Coder-Com] IRCU problem

2003-10-24 Thread Perry Lorier
Florin wrote: Here's a log of the issue: *** [01:27:29] * Parts: nate` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01:27:29] * Parts: nate` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01:27:29] * Parts: nate` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01:27:29] * Parts: nate` ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01:27:29] * Parts: nate` ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Coder-Com] IRCU problem

2003-10-25 Thread Perry Lorier
Ian Kumlien wrote: Thank you for your report, however, in future can you send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll get onto fixing this ASAP. on ircu universal you get "can't part, not on that channel" so, moving the "user has parted" up somewhere in the code + adding a check if it's miss

[Coder-Com] 2.10.11.05 Released

2003-11-01 Thread Perry Lorier
2.10.11.05 has been released, this version fixes a number of bugs and introduces some new network wide features, and therefore will be a mandatory upgrade. Bug fixes: * the PART flood bug has been fixed. * a CPU starvation attack has been fixed. * IP based klines that match * now work (see note

[Coder-Com] [UPGRADE] 2.10.11.06 Released

2004-01-10 Thread Perry Lorier
I have just released 2.10.11.06. I'll be putting up tarballs soon for people. Changes since 2.10.11.04 [1] Along with the usual speedups and cleanups we've also got: Bug fixes: * Part bug fixed * IPThrottle bug fixed (klined users weren't throttled correctly) * Core whe

[Coder-Com] Tokenising IRC

2004-01-14 Thread Perry Lorier
This email goes out to client authors, and would be client authors. You know who you are. :) Today I want to talk about tokenising IRC, specifically how to parse what the IRC server sends you. First, according to rfc 1459, a line from an IRC server may begin with a token starting with a ":". Thi

Re: [Coder-Com] Little Information.

2004-01-18 Thread Perry Lorier
Jessy Côté wrote: What's happen with "muh" and the new version of ircu (.06)? We can't rejoin channel when we reconnected to "muh". Something wrong? At a guess, muh's parsing of JOIN messages from the server is broken, talk to the muh author about their broken use of requiring a ":" before a JO

Re: [Coder-com] idea

2007-07-05 Thread Perry Lorier
Brad Campbell wrote: Fahim Chachar wrote: Dear coders, I'd like to suggest an idea to improve X that is there has to be some enhacements in BANS of X. Such as: If there is a person who contains 2 numbers in his ident, I'd make X to ban his nickname. That could be 2 3 4 etc numbers, in his i

Re: [Coder-com] idea

2007-07-10 Thread Perry Lorier
Emanuel wrote: Adding a flag to the ban command "/msg X ban [-w] <#chan> " and a new column in the ban table would make it possible the use of regular expressions without restrictions, still.. wouldn't solve the cpu time problem. There are a few other issues too. We try and use approximately