[IRCServices] Notice Bug

[EpicIRC Administration]

RAW Telnet session:

:Global!services at epicirc.net NOTICE $* :[Network Notice] Our network has
been experiencing a major increase of unattended bots connecting. We are
taking many defensive actions to make sure that they do not interrupt the
normal activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP LAG, please ignore it,
as it is our Opers running :a scan to detect malicious bots. If you have any
questions, please join #Help and speak to an Oper. - XanaX, Sr. Network
Admin. 


IRCServices log (debug):

[Feb 19 00:26:25.908610 2005] debug: Received: :XanaX !
operserv at services.epicirc.net :global [Network Notice] Our network has been
experiencing a major increase of unattended bots connecting. We are taking
many defensive actions to make sure that they do not interrupt the normal
activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP LAG, please ignore it, as it
is our Opers running :a scan to detect malicious bots. If you have any
questions, please join #Help and speak to an Oper. - XanaX, Sr. Network
Admin.

[Feb 19 00:26:25.908762 2005] operserv/main: XanaX: global [Network Notice]
Our network has been experiencing a major increase of unattended bots
connecting. We are taking many defensive actions to make sure that they do
not interrupt the normal activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP LAG,
please ignore it, as it is our Opers running :a scan to detect malicious
bots. If you have any questions, please join #Help and speak to an Oper. -
XanaX, Sr. Network Admin.

[Feb 19 00:26:25.911967 2005] debug: Sent: :Global NOTICE $* :[Network
Notice] Our network has been experiencing a major increase of unattended
bots connecting. We are taking many defensive actions to make sure that they
do not interrupt the normal activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP
LAG, please ignore it, as it is our Opers running :a scan to detect
malicious bots. If you have any questions, please join #Help and speak to an
Oper. - XanaX, Sr. Network Admin.


... And just to be clear, let me paste a copy of the 'alias' that I've been
using to run this command.

alias xdccwarn { .operserv global [Network Notice] Our network has been
experiencing a major increase of unattended bots connecting. We are taking
many defensive actions to make sure that they do not interrupt the normal
activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP LAG, please ignore it, as it
is our Opers running a scan to detect malicious bots. If you have any
questions, please join #Help and speak to an Oper. - XanaX, Sr. Network
Admin. }

Hm, that is weird.  I also wanted to test sending the message from another
client than mIRC, and seeing what the result was.

....

[12:40am] -Global- [Network Notice] Our network has been
experiencing a major increase of unattended bots connecting. We are taking
many defensive actions to make sure that they do not interrupt the normal
activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP LAG, please ignore it, as it
is our Opers running a scan to detect malicious bots. If you have any
questions, please join #Help and speak to an Oper. - XanaX, Sr. Network
Admin.

..... So I guess all that work just proved you guys were right.  When I used
BitchX to SEND the notice (instead of mIRC) the result was without error.  A
bug in mIRC must place the : there on outgoing messages if it is over a
certain length or something.

If anyone has anything to add I would be glad to hear it, but as of this
test I will go ahead  and just assume an mIRC bug, I will try to submit it
to them see if it can be fixed that way.

Thanks for all the support,

XanaX
EpicIRC - irc.epicirc.net



-----Original Message-----
From: ircservices-bounces at ircservices.esper.net
[mailto:ircservices-bounces at ircservices.esper.net] On Behalf Of Andrew
Church
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 11:48 PM
To: ircservices at ircservices.esper.net
Subject: RE: [IRCServices] Notice Bug

     Hmm, interesting.  Can you provide a debug log from Services
(ircservices -debug) for this behavior?  If you could get a raw dump of the
client/server connection, that would help as well; for example:

$ telnet host.name 6667
NICK nick
USER user * * user

and send the raw IRC data that follows.

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

>Xchat:
>
>[3:27pm] <ANTRAiCX> -Global- [Network Notice] Our network has been 
>experiencing a major increase of unattended bots connecting. We are 
>taking many defensive actions to make sure that they do not interrupt 
>the normal activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP LAG, please 
>ignore it, as it is our Opers running :a scan to detect malicious bots. 
>If you have any questions, please join #Help and speak to an Oper. - 
>XanaX, Sr. Network Admin.
>
>iircII on solaris:
>
>[3:31pm] <work> -Global- [Network Notice] Our network has been 
>experiencing a major increase of unattended bots connecting. We are 
>taking many defensive [3:31pm] <work> actions to make sure that they do 
>not interrupt the normal activity of the network. If you receive a CTCP 
>LAG, please ignore it, as it is [3:31pm] <work> our Opers running :a 
>scan to detect malicious bots. If you have any questions, please join 
>#Help and speak to an Oper. - XanaX, Sr.
>
>And of course it still does it on mIRC as well.
>
>So my tests show that this bug is in fact an ircservices bug, and not 
>related to any mirc errors.  Testing in 3 other clients all performed 
>the exact same way, and duplicated the exact same results.  The source 
>notice of course didn't have the ":" in it, however it appeared at the 
>same location for all 3 of the clients.
>
>Thanks for any help you may be able to offer,
>
>JL.
>admin at epicirc.net
>EpicIRC - irc.epicirc.net
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