Re: Please,please patch your ircd

["Gael M ." <gael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

working fine on solaris. Andy is running ircd on a Debian box

Gael

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 03:47:20PM +0100, Andy De Petter wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have "tried" to patch a server, by compiling that one, but the server
> refused to accept connections after starting up the new one.
> 
> I don't know what caused it, but fact is that we had to restart the old
> (unpatched) one, to be able to accept clients.
> 
> The reason that the clients got (even from localhost) was: connection
> timed out.  I tried to disable iauth (when something goes wrong, blame
> iauth), but no use....
> 
> Anyone has seen this phenomenon before?
> 
> regards,
> 
> -andy
> 
> Subhi S Hashwa wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Over 1500 trojans are on anet at the time of writing , currently sitting
> > on a channel #ech0 "unprintable" I am sure you're aware of the problem,
> > theres a solution if you want to take it
> > 
> >  ftp://mgc.spacestar.net/ircd-2.10.3-patches-stable.tgz
> > 
> > has ircd2.10.3+patch which detects the trojans and quits them filtering
> > them and making the ircd operation smoother
> > 
> > These trojans are found to be using ratbert.skybel.net , irc.anet.com
> > other servers are already patched.
> > 
> > these trojans are destructive to irc as it makes people who are infected
> > join irc without a client, sit on the channel and execute certain
> > commands to channel, stealth used to block it by making it anonymous,
> > but stealth is down atm, so its upto you to patch your server, save your
> > own bandwith and save us the ctcp or channel joins/part of 1500 clients.
> > 
> > Please please fix your server as it affects the whole network.
> > 
> > Thank you for your anticipated cooperation,
> > 
> > Subhi Hashwa
> > InfraRed @ IRC
> 
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