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+ <H1>[IRCServices Coding] Exceptions</H1>
+ <B>Andrew Church</B>
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+ <I>Sun Feb 3 03:26:43 PST 2002</I>
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+<PRE>><i>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
+</I>><i>
+</I>>><i> >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
+</I>>><i> >things like limiting the number of connections from a host not running
+</I>>><i> >ident.
+</I>>><i>
+</I>>><i> I assume that "not" is extraneous, but seeing as how 99.9% of hosts
+</I>>><i> don't run ident (or at least a _useful_ ident), and supporting it would
+</I>>><i> just make exception lists longer and exception processing take more time, I
+</I>>><i> don't see the point.
+</I>><i>
+</I>><i>The reason I request this is because of a recent attack on one of the
+</I>><i>networks I operate. We had > 50 clones from 15 different proxies. If we
+</I>><i>could have set a 1 limit for ~*@*, they would have been killed off very
+</I>><i>quickly. As it was, the proxy scanner couldn't kill them off fast enough
+</I>><i>and the whole net was down for almost an hour until the auto-zlines kicked
+</I>><i>in.
+</I>
+ Seems to me you could just have had your scanner add autokills for
+found proxies...
+
+ --Andrew Church
+ <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">achurch at achurch.org</A>
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