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Do you have any of the bot info from client logs or anything?

Sorry for big delay. No i don't have any logs, sorry. Like i said, i reinstalled everything from the beginning cus i have new server now.

I just though to request to make this posible before they start again doing this things. But it ...

Yup, i have enabled it

I do understand what you're saying. The problem is if the bots have CTCP replies disabled they wont even tell the server their version and will then be able to still get on.

Which is why i say to use spamfilters. Because it is a hell of a lot harder to avoid a spamfilter.

As far as i am aware ...

It does say in the documentation that ban version blocks will not work for clients who have disabled CTCP replies. So if the bot owner really wanted to he/she could get past a ban version block. Which is why i suggest a spamfilter because that doesnt rely on the client responding to a request.

No ...

As stated in previous posts I'm not sure which ones exactly banning via version is virtually impossible. Any good scripter/coder can easily modify their clients version response to report back with what the server will accept.

yes, thats right but i though at least to stop this bots that didnt ...

Its impossible to ask for the version before the connection is registered because there is no Nick for the version reply to come from at that stage so it would be a version reply with no sender which is incorrect.

If there are some details like nick, ident, host and names that fit a pattern you ...

Default is:

| 12:43:13 | * Connecting to irc.xxxxxxx.com (6667)
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| 12:43:18 | -Irc.xxxxxxx.Com- *** Looking up your hostname...
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| 12:43:18 | -Irc.xxxxxxx.Com- *** Checking ident...
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| 12:43:19 | -Irc.xxxxxxx.Com- *** No ident response; username prefixed with ~
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| 12:43:19 | -Irc.xxxxxxx.Com ...