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Re: [patch] to support ACCOUNT (ircu2.10.11) and REALHOST (lain1.2)



On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 09:29, f.soderblom@wineasy.se wrote:
> attached trivial patch fixes /WHOIS to include support for numeric
> 320 (RPL_WHOISREALHOST) and 330 (RPL_WHOISACCOUNT), ie:
> 
> /whois froo
> 
> --- [froo] (froo@quakenet.org) : froo
> --- [froo] is actually @real.host.cc
> --- [froo] *.QuakeNet.org :QuakeNet IRC Server
> --- [froo] is an IRC Operator
> --- [froo] is authed as froo
> --- [froo] idle 00:00:34, signon: Sun Jun 16 18:23:38
> --- [froo] End of WHOIS list.

That /WHOIS reply looks quite curious. (I've never been on QuakeNet, so
it's the first time I've seen it.) What exactly is the purpose of
RPL_WHOISREALHOST? Thwarting of denial-of-service scripts? Disabling
host checking on bots?

Alex.

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