[IRCServices Coding] Some IMHO usefull features

[Marc-Andre A. Fuentes]

maybe a blacklist of email could be usefull for mail domains like
"whitehouse.gov"
i don't think mr. bush would like to receive an auth code for another nick
:P

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Craig McLure wrote:

> >From: "Ekim Engin" <ekim.engin at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> >Reply-To: ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net
> >To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
> >Subject: RE: [IRCServices Coding] Some IMHO usefull features
> >Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 04:53:03 +0200
> >
> > > 1, Personally, I dont see the point in this. If you ban an
> > > email block, they
> > > will just find another 1. for example, you cant ban
> > > *.hotmail.com on a
> > > network, so the "stupid kiddies" will just use something like
> > > that. Just
> > > insert a largish reg delay, it would mean they would have to
> > > change their
> > > IP, or wait for something like 60mins before being able to
> > > register again.
> > >
> >
> >Huge proxy atacks, or even more DDOS atacks registering 1 nick per hour
> >with 500 hosts is quite disturbing. Services is sending out many mails
> >(to adresses that do not exist) and we get the bounces. I implemented
> >this feature on an earlier version of ircservices with the result, that
> >the complete "registration atack" stopped. I reopend the ban 2 days
> >after, and the atack continued on same speed. Ist is based on a one time
> >initialisation, spreadign out through a common used but backdoored
> >script. Once started it does the registering crap all the time. Akilling
> >(or glineing) just results in the user getting banned. After he/she
> >comes back, the script continues registering. The only thing common to
> >this atacks is it uses alwas the same mail adresses. So I thought this
> >as quite usefull, it's just a suggestion after all.
> >
> > > 2) Once again, i dont see a point for this feature. It would
> > > make channels
> > > prone to opwars, and takeovers. although the SUSPEND command
> > > does do what
> > > you ask, but i am unsure if it supports wildcards.
> >
> >Suspend does prevent registering AND using of the channel, while my
> >feature suggestion just prevents registering. We came up with this
> >feature afer every single channel gets registerd with #ttnet_channelname
> >(the network is called TTNet). As it is our Network policy that channels
> >starting with #ttnet may just be registerd by our network stuff, it is
> >quite annoying to stop/drop/suspend these channels all the time, while
> >with this feature does allow us to prevent this from scratch.
> >
> > >
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> Once again, i see no way of preventing 1. If the feature is added to
> services, a script like the following will be created:
>
> alias spam {
> :loop
> set %nick $rand(0,999999)
> set %email $rand(0,9999999)
> set %pass $rand(0,9999999)
> /nick $rand(a,z) $+ $rand(a,z) $+ $rand(A,Z) $+ $rand(a,z) $+ %nick
> /ns register %pass %email $+ @hotmail.com
> goto loop
> }
>
> Its not likley that you can ban hotmail, as in excess 20% of any IRC
> Networks users usually have a hotmail accounts :P
>
> although i agree with Suggestion 2.
>
>
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> Craig McLure
> Craig at chatspike.net
> Network Administrator of the ChatSpike IRC Network.
> ChatSpike, the users network! www.chatspike.net
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