ngIRCd Users September 2019

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IRC+ Spec
by jrmu 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Greetings po||ux , I am working right now on a pcre filter. So far I tested it and I managed to kludge something together that can filter out privmsgs I also have a set of bad words filters and spam filters you can use as default, I'd like to contribute that later once I get it polished. In the meantime, I wanted to ask you, I am very interested in setting up a standard to directly compete with IRCv3 because I'm extremely frustrated with IRCv3. In general, that community doesn't care about making IRC usable for normal people. It seems to me they want to keep IRC for their own cliques so they can fight with bots and stroke their own ego. I saw you were working on IRC+ and I'd like to extend that and propose some specs and begin implementing them right away in ngircd. I've discussed with the psybnc community and they are interested in having me either maintain the code or fork the project. God willing, I want to code many of the mobile-friendly features into psybnc that I had discussed earlier. Here are the features I want to achieve from IRC+: 1) Recipient confirmations when a message is delivered 2) Better support for mobile clients that have frequent disconnections 3) Standardized, in-band file upload (no web browser needed) 4) Audio/video streaming in a way that is fully compatible with SIP 5) Message sync across irc clients on multiple devices 6) HTTP tunneling to bypass firewalls 7) Buddy lists 8) Standardized registration interface As far as I can tell, none of these critical features are being addressed by the IRCv3 team. The domain name ircplus.org seems available. I'd like to purchase it and call this spec IRC+. I'd like to start with your protocol plus add the above extensions. Since you used the name first, I believe you own it and so I wanted to ask for your blessing. Are you OK with me proceeding? I will contribute code and specs under a BSD-like license (https://lecturify.com/license.html), it will all be open and freely redistributable. jrmu

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ngIRCd 25 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 / PowerPC
by Götz Hoffart 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

the executable works ("runs") as expected --+ tests run successfully ("make check") --+ | ngIRCd compiles ("make") --+ | | ./configure works --+ | | | | | | | Platform Compiler ngIRCd Date Tester C M T R * --------------------------- ------------ ---------- -------- -------- - - - - - powerpc/apple/darwin8.11.0 gcc 4.0.1 25 19-09-08 sysop Y Y Y Y 3 real 4m6.141s user 0m21.255s sys 0m23.724s Still running fine :-) Regards Götz

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Hostmask bug?
by jrmu 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Greetings po||ux, This is jrmu from IRC. So, I took a look at this issue: https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/228 OK po||ux , it's confirmed, the reason why the hashes aren't working is because ngircd hashes twice. Suppose I have 2 ngircd servers (X and Y) set up connected to each other. The salt is 9UdVFZOQszoWpvLAIXSvqF. On server X I use telnet to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 6667. So the hostmask is 127.0.0.1, and the salt is appended to get the string 127.0.0.19UdVFZOQszoWpvLAIXSvqF. This is hashed to give fde34f9b on the other server, the hostmask is fde34f9b. The salt 9UdVFZOQszoWpvLAIXSvqF is appended to give the string fde34f9b9UdVFZOQszoWpvLAIXSvqF, this is then hashed to give 93973dfb. So on server X, the hostmask is fde34f9b, and on server Y the hostmask is 93973dfb. What needs to be done is server Y must not hash the hostmask a 2nd time, and just pass through as is. The question now is, when a new user connects to X, should server X broadcast the uncloaked IP address and let server Y cloak it again; or should server X broadcast the cloaked IP and server Y should *not* cloak? I have a fix using the 2nd solution (server Y does not cloak): https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/blob/master/src/ngircd/client.c line 340 I change the line to read: if (Conf_CloakHost[0] && strchr(Client->host, '.')) { That appears to solve the bug. I tested it and it seems to be working on my side. If you want demo servers to verify, just PM me on IRC. Now the hostmask renders properly before cloaking a host, the server will check to see if there is a period in the hostname, if so it has not yet been cloaked; if there is no ., it has already been cloaked and there's no need to cloak a second time. jrmu

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