Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-19 Thread peter green
e isp was cooperative all of the ip's allocated to a user could be on very different reverse dns hostnames which could be a real pain for channel operators From: bas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:06:19 +0

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-18 Thread bas
peter green wrote: > > i said end site not end user > > in other words a home connection will likely get a /48 > so will a large university site > it's likely that a large university, like an ISP, gets more than a /48.

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-18 Thread peter green
i said end site not end user in other words a home connection will likely get a /48 so will a large university site If every end user were allocated a /48, clone control would not be a big problem: just ignore the last 48 bits of the address. The harder problem is that some end users are allocate

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-17 Thread Entrope
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, peter green wrote: > would it not be easier to have a single codebase and have each network > #define out the features they don't require rather than everyone haveing to > make a patch work against a radically changed codebase Kev weighed in with the Undernet viewpoint on thi

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-15 Thread Kev
> > RFC specifies "\r\n", the original code base does "\r\n", clients have a > > right to expect "\r\n", and it simplifies buffer size calculations. > > However, at some point I hope to change the server-server protocol to a > > binary protocol. This obviously would not extend to clients except >

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-15 Thread bas
> > and for that matter why does it send crlf instead of just lf on > > server-server links this is also a waste of bandwidth and afaict no p10 > > implementation minds being sent just lf > > RFC specifies "\r\n", the original code base does "\r\n", clients have a > right to expect "\r\n", and it

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-15 Thread Kev
> Undernet prides itself on being as RFC1459 compatible as possible, RFC1459 > requires the : before the last parameter, therefore any clients not liking > it are obviously not following the protocol. This is an incorrect interpretation of the RFC. The RFC specifies that the last parameter MAY b

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-15 Thread Kev
> firstly as most of you are no doubt aware 4 of the worlds 6 largest irc > networks are running p10 ircd's > > would it not be easier to have a single codebase and have each network > #define out the features they don't require rather than everyone haveing to > make a patch work against a rad

Re: [Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-15 Thread xplora
Undernet prides itself on being as RFC1459 compatible as possible, RFC1459 requires the : before the last parameter, therefore any clients not liking it are obviously not following the protocol. This is probably the same for the CRLF issue you mentioned. (it's been a while since I read the RFC) P

[Coder-Com] a few ideas

2003-03-15 Thread peter green
firstly as most of you are no doubt aware 4 of the worlds 6 largest irc networks are running p10 ircd's would it not be easier to have a single codebase and have each network #define out the features they don't require rather than everyone haveing to make a patch work against a radically change