Re: nick collides

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 22, Andrew Snare wrote:
| I use a simple scheme for the situation of new server starting up. I
| have two configuration files. When I start the IRC server, it uses a
| configuration with auto-connects but no I-lines. This is "startup"
| mode and allows the IRC server to join the network and for things to
| stabilise. Five minutes later, the real configuration file is put in
| place and the server told to rehash, at which point clients can
| connect and find the network already in place.

may be we should have a command line flag for this.
something like block access for 300s, or until we see
20000u(sers)

obvious drawback being that admins/opers won't be able to get
on either, so i'm not sure it's such a great idea.