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

[Loke Dupont]

I agree that Ident should be tossed so far away we will never se it
again,
Bans could be done by IP and that would stop the search for 1337
hostmasks
However i to belive that DNS i more conveniant for this purpose.

Loke

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Westley
Sendt: 12. marts 2003 23:05
Til: irc3 (Unity) public discussion
Emne: Re: [Unity-irc3] DNS, identd, ...


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