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Let me tell you, it's really fun when you see 500 people thinking that they are undetectable suddenly realize that they aren't ;)

Couldn't agree with your more, there. Blotter has come to my attention too. I suppose it's yet another thing I'll be dealing with tonight. Looks like I'll be sending ...

looking through the source code, when a bottler client is banned from the network, it removes the network from its internal list, thus preventing it from reconnecting after you have removed the ban.

I've found another type of xdcc leecher as well, called XDCCcatcher. It reports itself as being mirc ...

I noticed that the users IP has been added as a value in their /whois, would just like to say it's a nice touch.. saves a bit of time when dealing with problem users.

-tiko

To combat spam bots that register nicknames, I coded a registration delay into our services. I'm sure that other services can do it as well.

What codemastr said is true.. I've had to rid my network of a few of them.. about 100. I added "No bottler clients please" to all my motds, and did a ctcp version of the entire network, killing anything that replied with "Bottler". They do however reconnect, but drop the connection as soon as the ...

In what ways does high traffic mode assist in bandwidth preservation, and how?

Here's an example for you, Doikor:

Just recently my network acquired several hundred bots, I won't go into detail; this is merely an example. At the very peek of their connections, each of my servers were consuming approximately 60 kbit/s. All in all, when they finally ceased with the mass ...

Tribes 2, from sierra/dynamix also uses IRC as it's in-game chat software.

if i've read correctly, what you're looking for is a round robin.

Basically all you need to do is create multiple entries for irc.your.net in your DNS zone file, each one pointing to a different server IP.