Re: nick collides

[Donald Quixote VI <holeekow@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:22 10/22/98 +1000, Andrew Snare wrote:
>>>>>> "Donald" == Donald Quixote VI <holeekow@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>  Donald> hi all..  As most know abuse of and on irc are rampant.  The
>  Donald> demise of blackened on EFnet only underscore the problem.
>
>  Donald> One of the reasons irc servers are nuked so much is to cause
>  Donald> lag and/or splits, many times just for a chance to cause
>  Donald> nick collides I think.
>
>EFNet gets smurfed regardless, and nick collisions are a lot harder on
>EFNet so I don't think it's a major motivation. Personal DoS or
>various forms of nuking are used on EFNet to get rid of individuals.
>
>Server nuking and DoS appears to happen generally to hack opps on a
>channel, or just to piss the server administrators off. Oddly enough,
>I think our Channel Delay (which I originally thought of as unfriendly
>and annoying) is probably a great deal of help here. Of-course it just
>means the DoS has to last 15min, but I still think it helps.
>
>  Donald> Wouldn't eliminating nick collides reduce the attacks on the
>  Donald> servers themselves?
>
>Not really, although eliminating nick collisions would of-course be a
>nice thing to do, and is slated for ircd 2.11 (I believe). This will
>most likely be done by removing the use of one's nick as the "key"
>field.
>
I live on IRCnet.. but a little birdy tells me that strobing a certain port
or an EFnet ircd server causes the timestamps to reset.. allowing for
simple takeovers.  With serverops on merge, and smooshed timestamps, the
channel is up for grabs..  least that's what i'm told..