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EFNet Switches to OpenChanfix

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

EFNet’s global voting body has voted to switch its Chanfix reopping service to the opensource OpenChanfix.

“EFnet has traditionally been a network of multiple implementations”, OpenChanfix coder Garion explains to IRC-Junkie. ” We are running several compatible ircd versions, and that seems to do well. When it turned out that the maintainers of the current chanfix didn’t have the time to fix bugs and add features, Beige and I decided to write our own chanfix. Apparently the EFnet admins prefer this implementation over the current chanfix, because they voted to use OCF from now on.”

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Tags: EFNet, IRC, Network Addons
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Troublemaker Forces GameSurge to GLine ISP

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

“Due to problems with a recurring trouble maker and no response from Sprint’s abuse department, so far, which we have attempted to contact for the past three weeks, we have been forced to block this range from our our network”, the GameSurge website announced.

Cradly from the GameSurge team explained to IRC-Junkie that the gline was eventually set “due to a user who  would use dynamic ip addresses to evade g-lines.  Because we didn’t  receive a response from Sprint to our initial abuse complaints, we decided on the ban.”

The user made it a game to evade the ban, both on IRC and on GameSurge’s forum.

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Tags: GameSurge, IRC
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InspIRCD Wiki Page Defaced

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

“During the day today, several wiki pages were defaced, We found a lot of ‘Increase your testosterone’ links, and someone spamming ShadowIRCd” the InspireIRCd Wiki section announced.

Rather than an exploit which have been abused, the defacement was able to take place to the way the Wiki was configured. Brain, of the InspireIRCd project, explains; “we would edit pages (as sysops) then lock the pages when we were done. This meant that any pages which were currently blank and not in use were writeable by anyone, as ’scratchpad’ space. The idea of this was to let third party module developers write help pages for their modules, then once they were happy with their pages, we would lock them and link them into the docs.”

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Tags: Hack, InspIRCd
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IRCn Not Quite Dead Yet

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

Peace & Protection, aIRC and IRCn, just a few of all around scripts that build up a large userbase and respect in the IRC community over the years, but have stopped development a few years back. From one of them however, I got an email a few days back.

“Just as an FYI, we are not quite ready to officially declare ircN a dead project.  Granted we know the past couple years have been disappointing, but only because we’ve continuously leaned on a single individual to carry on the bulk of the project”, slakker told to IRC-Junkie in a reaction. Slakker and the current developers have been on the IRCn team for years and are planning to get back into action now.

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Tags: IRC, mIRC, Software
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“Oops!” at Undernet

Monday, April 18th, 2005

A little typo in a GLine caused major effects on the Undernet network today.

The result of the typo was that the entire network got GLined with the reason set for the user the GLine was meant for: infected! Advertising infecting web sites. Clean this computer! http://www.moosoft.com http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ )

As a result of the events the entire network fell apart, and servers had to be reconnected one-by-one. On the IRC statistics website NetSplit.de Undernet dissapeared completely from the Top 25 list, where it normally can be found in the top 3.

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Tags: IRC, Undernet
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