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Anope Being DDoS'ed

“The Anope server continues to suffer a heavy DDoS attack, but don’t panic!” Anope’s Angelic announced on the SearchIRC forum.

Anope is a popular set of services in use on many IRC networks.

“Anope was attacked by a user ( KEvin of http://happyirc.ath.cx/ ) after he joined Anope’s support channel on IRC and requested help”, Angelic told IRC-Junkie in a reaction. “Unfortunately all our @’s were afk at the time and he wasn’t happy when no one responded to his question within five minutes.”

In a private message to Angelic he said the DDoS would continue untill he was helped to his satisfaction.

“I answered his trivial question by directing him to the relevant part of our documentation and the attack slowed. He then rejoined Anope’s support channel and took offense at a comment made by one of our users regarding DDoS kiddies. He was kick/banned, started the DDoS again and said it wouldn’t be stopped until we unbanned him.”

At the heights of the attack traffic was reaching 100GB a day. The provider has since pulled the account for a week and presented the team with a bill for 1000$ for excess bandwidth consumption.

“The relevant authorities, both in the UK (where KEvin resides) and the US (Where one server was hosted) have been informed and because of the monetary loss we are hoping appropriate action will be taken”, Angelic continues.

“We would like to thank everyone who has offered us support, specifically SearchIRC for hosting our temporary forums and the guys at Quadspeedi for helping us secure new IRCD hosting and offering expert advice, along with all Anope’s users” Angelic ends.

Update on the Development of Eggdrop

Development has been going slowly lately around the popular Eggdrop bot. We got into contact with lead developer Wcc and asked what causes the delay.

“There are different reasons for the slowdown for each of the branches” Wcc starts. “As for 1.6, there haven’t been any real.. problems. 1.6.17 has been a rock-solid release. As for 1.7, this is mainly due to the fact that I, personally, haven’t had any free time to do any of the major things that need to be done on it.  1.9 is once again fairly active. Alot of progress is being made.”

“We need coders! :) I have no free time to work on it. If anyone would like to help out, see http://www.eggheads.org/mailman/listinfo/eggdev. 1.7 might be released and it might not. Things are going pretty slowly on it right now” Wcc explained.

Version 1.9 is the step up to the 2.0 branch, which is a major overhaul of the bot. In September 2002 we interviewed guppy, then the lead developer, where he explained about the changes that are coming up. Among the changes are support for Perl and Javascript as scripting languages. We asked Wcc how development goes in the 1.9.* branch.

“Yes, both scripting languages are currently available in 1.9 CVS. See http://www.eggheads.org/devel/ for information on obtaining CVS versions of eggdrop.”

The 1.9 and ultimately, the 2.0 branch will break away from the old code and will be a complete rewrite. This will also break compatibility with old TCL scripts. However, Wcc explains that the team might “write some kind of compatibility library that a user can load if he MUST use a 1.6 script.” Assuming they will have time left for it.

“In 1.6.x, we (obviously) can’t “fix” any of the major problems we see with our Tcl extensions, because we would break script compatibility. 1.9.x is a whole new bot. We want everything to work as we think (and all of you guys out there think) Eggdrop should work. If that means breaking compatibility, that’s fine, this time.”

Finally, Wcc likes to take advantage of the opportunity to attract new blood: “We need developers! If anyone out there is interested in joining the team, e-mail me at wcc AT techmonkeys.org. We also need user input for 1.9. What do you want Eggdrop to be? Now is your chance to make this the bot that you want it to be. Let us know! :) ”