Greetings, This is a feature request.
As an Opper for #poetry on Undernet, I have been experiencing issues with users abusing the +x hostmasking service. (which is a great service IMHO and nobody except IRCOppers and X/W should be allowed to see through it) My request is that X and W be allowed to see through this mask, always. I thought about this request for a bit and came up with the following implementation that would prevent users from abusing it to see through hostmasks: If user is not mode +x(cloaked) hostmask and ban is set, ban is handled normally. If user is cloaked and ban is set, cloaked ban is echo'd to channel, but X stores and does real ban on original hostmask. Yes, this is an internals mess, but seems appropriate. X sees all joins as true hostmask not cloaked hostmask. If banned true hostmask joins, X bans that hostmask. ---- It may be that this is not an X request so much as a server request (direct me to the right mailing list if this is the wrong one) that has bans see through hostmasks, always -- but if set on a cloaked hostmask it only bans the cloaking --- X/W would be required for banning true hostmask. ------------------------- How are people abusing the cloaking feature? I have users who are changing there nick!user@ portion of their hostmask in order to pretend to be other users or defeat bans set on a cloaked hostmask. That's all. Thank you very much for your time. Jay Gairson
