[IRCServices] A Suggestion

[Andrew Church]

     I'll look into allowing SQlines to kill users.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>Andrew,
>
>For the past couple of days my network has had a lot of connections, all of
>which use the same nickname. (Apartheid[<sequence of numbers>] are the
>nicks). These are floodbots using my network as a place to sit, while
>flooding other networks. I assume the person responsible is controling them
>from my network. My first response was to sqline the nick, but that caused
>problems. (Right now, im in the middle of akilling them, and I'm at 800
>hosts and going)
>
>With 800 bots connecting and getting a message that their nick is q-lined,
>and that they must use a different nick and giving them time to change their
>nick, it is filling up my file descriptors like crazy. By akilling them, (I
>suppose a zline would be even better?) it has relieved most of that stress.
>
>What I purpose is an extention of either sqline or, perhaps even beter,
>killclones
>
>sqline: Add a function that allows a person to not only qline the nicks, but
>akill anyone currently using that nick..
>
>or, perhaps better..
>
>expand killclones to also kill/akill for a time specified according to
>nick*/userinfo*, or perhaps even #chan (although this could be dangerous as
>well. All of the clients were in #srn-0wn3d, but so where 2 opers).
>
>If you have any questions, or if I could be any clearer, please let me know.
>
>Submited for your review,
>John
>
>
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