Re: Max Bans

[Piotr Kucharski <chopin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 04:08:36AM +0200, Robert Martin-Legene wrote:
> Imagine user A ("UA") on server A ("SA"). SA has a max ban setting of
> "endless". User B ("UB") on server B ("SB") will get banned by UA, but SB
> can only have 21 bans and hence ignores the ban since it's list is now
> full.

servers have limit on bans originating from clients, not from other servers.
RTFS, Robert:

(channel.c, add_banid function)

[...]
   if (MyClient(cptr) &&
                    ((len > MAXBANLENGTH) || (++cnt >= MAXBANS) ||
                     !match(ban->value.cp, banid) ||
                     !match(banid, ban->value.cp)))
        return -1;
[...]

> UB joins the channel. UA wonders and asks his SA (since he can't ask SB
> when he's using SA) for bans on the channel and get's a "full" list.

No way.

Piotr