IRCD cloaking issues

[ratman]

hey guys,

One of my users brought an issue to my attention this morning. Our network is adult oriented and a good number of people feel that the default cloaking module does not do a good enough job cloaking the hostmask. If the server cannot resolve a users IP address on connect it will cloak the whole thing, like this:

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*@177926D2.C4CA6D69.46310FA3.IP * 

This is what I want. However, if the server can resolve a users IP to a hostmask this is what I get:

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*@kinkster-46F4885E.dyn.optonline.net

any way to get full cloaking ALL the time?

[ratman]

Should be fixed by using set :: options :: dont-resolve

[katsklaw]

as you stated, the former example is from the server failing to get a resolution on an IP. IP's are NOT required to be resolvable and there is no way to assign a host to an unresolved IP. The latter example is a resolved host. There is nothing you as an IRC admin can do to force providers to use RDNS and it's a fact that will just need to be accepted.

Both examples are proper and both are just as secure. They are a result of a hash and cannot be decrypted since there is nothing encrypted to start The cloaking module works fine does it's job well. If the vanity of having the latter is an important issue, use HostServ to assign fake vanity hosts so it doesn't matter if the users IP resolved or not, they will have the exact same host regardless. Another option is to use vhost blocks.

[ratman]

as you stated, the former example is from the server failing to get a resolution on an IP. IP's are NOT required to be resolvable and there is no way to assign a host to an unresolved IP. The latter example is a resolved host. There is nothing you as an IRC admin can do to force providers to use RDNS and it's a fact that will just need to be accepted.

Both examples are proper and both are just as secure. They are a result of a hash and cannot be decrypted since there is nothing encrypted to start The cloaking module works fine does it's job well. If the vanity of having the latter is an important issue, use HostServ to assign fake vanity hosts so it doesn't matter if the users IP resolved or not, they will have the exact same host regardless. Another option is to use vhost blocks.

I will look into the Vhost blocks. That's not a bad idea

[DangerDane]

is there some way to use a vhost block to "force" a vhost on everyone without them logging in or something?.

[katsklaw]

is there some way to use a vhost block to "force" a vhost on everyone without them logging in or something?.

Not without a module.

[Stealth]

is there some way to use a vhost block to "force" a vhost on everyone without them logging in or something?.

Not without a module.

Or services with HostServ

[DangerDane]

I have Anope with HostServ so I can set up hostserv to assign everyone a specific hostname.