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by Syzop
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:37 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: Heads up: important UnrealIRCd hot-fix and release on Saturday (Dec 16, 2023)
Replies: 0
Views: 5503

Heads up: important UnrealIRCd hot-fix and release on Saturday (Dec 16, 2023)

This is a 48+ hours heads up, so UnrealIRCd admins know they should be around to patch their server on Saturday: Internally we discovered a serious issue in UnrealIRCd. In a common configuration scenario, a regular user can cause UnrealIRCd to crash, which results in all users being disconnected fro...
by Syzop
Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:17 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.3 released
Replies: 0
Views: 12860

UnrealIRCd 6.1.3 released

I'm happy to announce the release of UnrealIRCd 6.1.3 stable. The main focus of this release is adding countermeasures against large scale spam/drones. We do this by offering a central API which can be used for accessing Central Blocklist, Central Spamreport and Central Spamfilter. See the release n...
by Syzop
Fri Dec 01, 2023 8:32 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.3-rc1 available for testing
Replies: 0
Views: 10484

UnrealIRCd 6.1.3-rc1 available for testing

The release candidate for 6.1.3 is now available for testing. You can help us by testing and reporting any issues at https://bugs.unrealircd.org/. I hope more people are willing to test the release candidate this time, as previous time the 6.1.2-rc's were undertested and therefore 6.1.2 required sev...
by Syzop
Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: New Central Blocklist to reduce spam
Replies: 2
Views: 5757

Re: New Central Blocklist to reduce spam

Not really a way to test it. But you are right, it would be good to see if it is working at all (without enabling debug mode). Maybe some STATS like command. I will look into that, thanks for bringing it up :)
by Syzop
Fri Nov 10, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: New Central Blocklist to reduce spam
Replies: 2
Views: 5757

New Central Blocklist to reduce spam

The UnrealIRCd Central Blocklist is an attempt to detect and block spammers. It works similar to DNS Blacklists but the central blocklist receives many more details about the user that is trying to connect and therefore can make a better decision on whether a user is likely a spammer or not. Since e...
by Syzop
Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:11 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.3 released
Replies: 0
Views: 10707

UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.3 released

This dot release fixes a possible crash if you have parse errors in your conf and REHASH. Also, if you use UTF8 regexes in spamfilter { } blocks (which is a new feature in 6.1.2) then these were not working when booting the IRCd but they would work after a REHASH. The problem with this is that if yo...
by Syzop
Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:59 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.2 released
Replies: 0
Views: 9657

UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.2 released

If you have not installed 6.1.2 or 6.1.2.1 yet, then know that 6.1.2 has quite a nice number of new spam filter features, such as Central Spamfilter . All features are explained in more detail in the release notes . You can upgrade to 6.1.2.x on *NIX via the "./unrealircd upgrade" command....
by Syzop
Wed Oct 04, 2023 5:34 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.1 released
Replies: 0
Views: 9415

UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.1 released

I'm happy to announce the release of UnrealIRCd 6.1.2.1 stable. This release focuses on adding spamfilter features but also contains various other new features and some fixes. This release is a little ahead of schedule because I had the impression that the Release Candidate(s) were not being tested ...
by Syzop
Sat Sep 23, 2023 10:30 am
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.2-rc2 available for testing
Replies: 0
Views: 9162

UnrealIRCd 6.1.2-rc2 available for testing

The second release candidate for 6.1.2 is now available for testing. If you can, please help with testing this release, so we can release 6.1.2 stable in 3-4 weeks. Issues can be reported at https://bugs.unrealircd.org/. This release mainly focuses on spamfilter features but also contains fixes and ...
by Syzop
Fri Sep 08, 2023 3:58 pm
Forum: News and Releases
Topic: UnrealIRCd 6.1.2-rc1 available for testing
Replies: 0
Views: 9344

UnrealIRCd 6.1.2-rc1 available for testing

The release candidate for 6.1.2 is now available for testing. You can help us by testing and reporting any issues at https://bugs.unrealircd.org/. This release mainly focuses on spamfilter features but also contains fixes and other new features. See the release notes for full details. If you want to...
by Syzop
Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: Installing and getting connected
Topic: Cloaking + /oper
Replies: 5
Views: 10103

Re: Cloaking + /oper

What are complaining about, "nothing concrete" !? You got 3 or actually 4 good answers from PeGaSuS with direct links to specific configuration items. Except for #2, which indeed is not possible and would break clients (exactly what PeGaSuS said)... ask any IRC client developer or IRC serv...
by Syzop
Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:01 pm
Forum: Generic support
Topic: Allow only operators to create channels
Replies: 1
Views: 3491

Re: Allow only operators to create channels

First of all, UnrealIRCd 5 is no longer supported since a few days, so I urge you to upgrade to UnrealIRCd 6: Upgrading from 5.x to 6.x . It's not much of a hassle, unless you have custom coded modules or modules that only exist for 5.x. When you are on UnrealIRCd 6 you can install the module third/...
by Syzop
Mon Jul 10, 2023 10:24 am
Forum: Generic support
Topic: Is it possible to do g/line in all countries?
Replies: 8
Views: 5795

Re: Is it possible to do g/line in all countries?

Banning everything and then ELINE-ing is not a good idea. Then an attacker just needs to find 1 proxy in a country and flood and you are screwed as they can't be klined/glined/whateveryouchose. I think what you want is this: ban user { mask { mask *; exclude-country { NL; DE; FR; } } reason "Yo...
by Syzop
Fri Jul 07, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: Spam, drones and proxies
Topic: Wave of spam hits IRC
Replies: 8
Views: 15847

Re: Wave of spam hits IRC

For the private message spam (not the channel spam), we have in UnrealIRCd something that limits the maximum number of "concurrent conversations". Basically how many PM's you can sustain at the same time, how soon you may PM a new person. It is possible to lower this amount, by default it ...
by Syzop
Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:27 pm
Forum: Spam, drones and proxies
Topic: Wave of spam hits IRC
Replies: 8
Views: 15847

Wave of spam hits IRC

Since a few days, there are waves of spam hitting many IRC networks. The spam uses this tool https://github.com/acidvegas/efknockr and the text ranges from simple phrases about SUPERNETS to ASCII art, colors, all kinds of stuff, being spammed in both channels and private message. What sets this spam...