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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Sun Feb  3 03:26:43 PST 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
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  36 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;Why can't you use <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">user at host</A> masks in exceptions? This would be helpful for
  37 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;things like limiting the number of connections from a host not running
  38 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> &gt;ident.
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  40 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>      I assume that &quot;not&quot; is extraneous, but seeing as how 99.9% of hosts
  41 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> don't run ident (or at least a _useful_ ident), and supporting it would
  42 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> just make exception lists longer and exception processing take more time, I
  43 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> don't see the point.
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  45 </I>&gt;<i>The reason I request this is because of a recent attack on one of the
  46 </I>&gt;<i>networks I operate. We had &gt; 50 clones from 15 different proxies. If we
  47 </I>&gt;<i>could have set a 1 limit for ~*@*, they would have been killed off very
  48 </I>&gt;<i>quickly. As it was, the proxy scanner couldn't kill them off fast enough
  49 </I>&gt;<i>and the whole net was down for almost an hour until the auto-zlines kicked
  50 </I>&gt;<i>in.
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  52      Seems to me you could just have had your scanner add autokills for
  53 found proxies...
  54
  55   --Andrew Church
  56     <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">achurch at achurch.org</A>
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