Host masking/Cloaking

[Derek Cooper]

who said 5000 script kiddies?..
simple question guys... IS there a cloaking/masking module/patch?.
I dont need other alternative suggestions on how to run my network.

Thanks to those genuinely trying to help.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Evans" <peter+hybrid at ixp.jp>
To: "General IRCD-Hybrid Discussion" <hybrid at lists.ircd-hybrid.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: Host masking/Cloaking


> Paul-Andrew Joseph Miseiko (esoteric at teardrop.ca) wrote:
> > Assuming your argument is valid and users can in fact get other users
IP's
> > then what is to stop them from getting other users spoofs?  If they can
> > acquire someone else's IP then acquiring someone else's spoof is just as
> > trivial.
>
> <snip all that rubbish and top posting ...>
>
>
> Well, you have a couple of solutions when you have 5000 script kiddies.
>
> 1 - shut down the irc server and let them become someone else's problem.
>
> 2 - no spoofing at all (except server ops). if the pencildicks want to
>     play packet flooding, let them.
>
> 3 - spoof ALL users to the same address, that way no one can tell what is
>     going on. ( @localhost or @this.address.is.spoofed.numbnuts are good
>     candidates.)
>
> 4 - require user authentication.
>
> <insert other possibilities here>
>
>
> Personally, I favour 1, but if that isn't an option, 2, and have some
server
> ops floating around with the KILL line and instructions to kill off /24s
that
> even remotely cause problems.
>
> Anyone who has problems being killed, read them their rights (NONE what so
ever)
> and tell them to go pee in someone else's puddle.
>
> As for 3, the pencildicks will just attack the server when they cant get
their
> little prepubescent rocks off Dos'ing other users.
>
>
>
> Not much of a solution really, and pretty off topic for a list
specifically
> about the Hybrid IRCd. I use option 4, but we have at the most 40 users on
our
> netwreck.
>
>
> p
>
>
>
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