Re: New type of abuse

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is this happenning from servers that split for longer than
15 minutes?
is the delay too short for IRCnet?

On Apr 09, Christophe Kalt wrote:
| On Apr 09, forcer wrote:
| | Lately, i've seen surprisingly many nick collissions while various parties
| | are attacking different channels.
| | First i thought it to be coincidence, but the kills were nicely timed, and
| | allways occurred on ppl with chanop status.
| | I informed myself a bit and found the way those parties accomplish this:
| | On a netmerge, a clone is placed on the merging server(s). This clone changes
| | it's nick to that of the person(s) being attacked. It won't get a "temporarily
| | unavailable", but a kill on both sides.
| 
| This should not happen.
| 
| | This is a fact and works, I tried it on myself a few times.
| | So, what's going on here?
| | I suppose it's the delay code.
| [delay code description]
| 
| no, ND doesn't work this way.
| when a nick is locked, it's locked until the timer expires
| (15 minutes by default)
| 
| I guess the question remains as to why you're able to do
| this.