[IRCServices] Chanserv UNBAN Bug

Craig Edwards brain at winbot.co.uk
Sun Apr 18 06:31:59 PDT 2004


as i see it the best way to support/fix this would be to allow the unrealircd module to support cloak-keys as provided by unreal itself so it can encode/decode cloaked hosts.

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>>As I figured from the version change log, this issues has not been fixed and still produces the same effect on .30
>
>     You're using Unreal, yes?  I looked into the problem, and it seems
>that Unreal is applying bans based on client IP address as well as real and
>fake hostmasks.  The problem with this is that the Unreal protocol doesn't
>send client IP addresses to other servers (Services included), so Services
>doesn't have any way to tell whether a given ban will match a client's IP
>address.  In short, you're SOL unless you can switch to another ircd.  I'll
>note this in the FAQ for the next release.
>
>  --Andrew Church
>    achurch at achurch.org
>    http://achurch.org/
>
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