Partial Spoofing of User's Addresses

[Michael]

That's a very good point and I'll definately keep it in mind if I find 
such a hack for Hybrid.

Thanks Dan!

Michael


Dan Udey wrote:

>I should also point out one thing I've noticed in the past on various
>IRC networks. If you have user at cable.host.com and mask to
>user at spoof.host.com, that works fine. If you have user at 127.0.0.1 and
>mask to user at 127.0.0.spoof, then some (most?) IRC clients will assume
>this is a reverse-resolved host, and will set banmasks like
>user@*.0.0.spoof (which, depending on your code, may or may not work).
>Masking IP addresses as 127.0.0.000 (or 999, or whatever) will
>generally overcome this problem.
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>On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:21:33 +0200, Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> wrote:
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>>On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:43:29PM -0800, Jack L. wrote:
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>>>Michael <xeon at xshellr8.com> wrote:
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>>>>Thanks Jack.
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>>>>I'm surprised that no one has created some hack that will allow
>>>>hybrid to do this, especially since there are other ircd's that do.
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>>>>At any rate, thanks for the help.
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>>>It has been discussed many times and I believe there are patches out
>>>there for it, but a lot of us don't like the idea of hostmasking so
>>>that is why its not in the stock ircd, however, if someone creates a
>>>patch that will provide hostmasking, we might put it in the contrib
>>>portion. And as for those other ircds, those are the other ircds :)
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>>Actually, I believe this is part of the modifications in the
>>ircd-hybrid-7-bg project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/hybrid7-bg/
>>I'm not quite sure how easy it would be to extract just the hostmasking
>>part, though...
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>>G'luck,
>>Peter
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