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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Wed Feb 28 11:30:02 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>How feasable would it be to add SOCKS/WinGate checking as an option to
  35 </I>&gt;<i>Services?  I am aware many ircds support this, but I am of the feeling that
  36 </I>&gt;<i>waiting for ident checks takes long enough, and making clients wait for a
  37 </I>&gt;<i>SOCKS check takes even longer, especially on hosts (@Home) which firewall
  38 </I>&gt;<i>the SOCKS port and fail to return a RST packet.  This would allow the majority
  39 </I>&gt;<i>of good users to connect while a SOCKS check would be done in the background.
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  41      This is another thing that (1) can't be done within the 4.x framework
  42 and (2) I'm not sure I want to do anyway, especially since the majority of
  43 ircds _do_ support it.  If the ircd is making people wait, fix the ircd,
  44 don't try to patch Services instead.  Also remember (and this applies to the
  45 DNS comment as well) that while each ircd need only worry about checking its
  46 own users, Services would have to check every new user that connected--all
  47 in a single process--and could even end up having to check users multiple
  48 times (on recovery from netsplits) depending on the ircd in use.
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  50      There actually seems to be a program floating around designed just for
  51 this task, which I think is a much better solution if you can't bear having
  52 the ircd do it.  I don't recall where it's located, but look for a program
  53 called &quot;SocksCleaner&quot; or something of the sort.
  54
  55   --Andrew Church
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