Re: [Unity-irc3] DNS, identd, ...

[David Westley]

Identd is useless and I think it should be buried as far into the ground as 
possible. DNS lookup for bans etc on the client end is a good idea but with a 
fall back to the server, as to DNS for stuff the server tracks...that will 
still be needed.

/me points at the GNU adns project :)

No need to write any resolver code :)

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Krueger <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:38:18 +0100
Subject: [Unity-irc3] DNS, identd, ...

> Hi everyone,
> 
> to date, ircds do hostname lookups and ident lookups when accepting
> connections. Question is, do we really need those? Come to think about it,
> - identd has no real value on most dialup hosts
> - identd and DNS lookup needs a lot of additional code
> - users could do DNS themselves and banning could be done on IP addresses
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> Jan Krüger
> http://www.jast-dev.net.tc
> 
> 
> 
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