Re: nick collides

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 22, ruokonen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
| > > may be we should have a command line flag for this.
| > > something like block access for 300s, or until we see
| > > 20000u(sers)
| 
| No, you should not code a sw for certain environment (ircnet).

I was thinking of leaving the number as a parameter (on the
command line), in which case I don't have a problem with
adding the feature.

| > > 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.
| > Admins may have special I: lines which are exluded from the lockout.
| 
| Specials blow up on your face sooner or later. The standard exception
| localhost can be easily used to bypass delayed access on startup.
| True servers don't have local lusers, and maybe multiuser hosts
| could use password and ident fields on localhost access.

yeah.. that could work.
I'm not sure I like the idea or not yet.