Re: RFD: authentication/access control

[forcer <forcer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:07:15PM -0400, Christophe Kalt wrote:
>I've been thinking about this for a while, and need some
>feedback on it before I think more about it.
>
>currently, ircd supports
>
>o 2 methods for authentication: DNS (for the hostname) and
>  identd (for the username).
>o 2 methods for access control: K (very flexible, but works
>  based on user@host only), and R lines (better, but
>  blocking!).
>
>I'm interested in hearing from people who would need other
>authentication mechanisms (what is it? public?  homebrewed?
>..) In particular, I'd like to hear from people currently
>using R lines.

I know webbernet uses R lines to check for open SOCKS servers on connecting
clients. (at least, i know they check for that. i got an attempt to access
port 1080 on my box, and checked out what they do with SOCKS).
This seems a more-or-less nice idea, but i guess it does alot of trouble
if it blocks the server (especially with firewalls who block access to port
1080 in dropping the packet).
	-forcer

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