On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:02:28PM -0700 or thereabouts, Fyodor wrote:
> You don't have to register a nick on Freenode either, though I guess
> there are some serious restrictions if you don't. For example, it
> wouldn't let me join the #fedora channel unless I registered.
Good point, though as you say there are restrictions:
* Can't PM +R channels
* Can't PM (non-ircop) users at all
* Can't NOTICE users at all
> irc.freenode.com does have ipv6 servers. At least according to their
> FAQ, you simply connect to irc.ipv6.freenode.net. They don't seem to
> offer SSL currently.
Nice didn't know that.
> I used stats p while I was on Freenet. It seemed to work, though no
> staff were online :|.
Sorry, my mistake I meant "stats u" as used by ircServerInfo.nse:
EFnet:
irc.he.net has been up for 213 days, 22:03:56
-:- [Highest client connection count(2710) (2708)]
Freenode:
This command is for network staff only
I think they've "secured" a few other stats cmds too.
> o If some script kiddie takes over the channel we can easily get it
> back since we will have the chansrv set to trust the registered nicks
> of core Nmap developers. If that happens on EFNet, I guess we just
> have to mail nmap-hackers and ask everyone to help ddos the
> perpetrator at a certain time?? :).
bwhahahahhah that's going in my quotes file. You sure you're not an
efnet user? ;)
There's that or CHANFIX: http://www.efnet.org/chanfix/
Takeovers are a lot harder nowadays because of timestamp fixes and
CHANFIX. Still possible, but usually a few eggdrops with +superbitch
is enough to hold a chan.
> o On Freenode we can give out Nmap cloaks which hide people's IP
> address. So instead of saying kris_at_adsl-2-3.whatever.comcast.net it
> says kris_at_nmap/hacker or whatever. On EFnet, don't you have to
> connect through a proxy or use the right shell account which
> corresponds to the IP address you want to show? I haven't used EFNet
> in quite a while.
Yes, unless you know the right ppl or are an ircop, you need a FQDN
otherwise your IP addr is shown. WRT freenode's cloaks, I personally
am against this mis-feature.
> o Freenode apparently has many other channels for active open source projects. Though
> perhaps EFnet has more of them, I don't know.
I would hang out in #nmap on freenode too and have no problem with
that being the official chan either. I'm Fractal on freenode and am in
#lisp and #forth.
Doug
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