[AC-Admins] Trash talking servers / admins

[Mirage]

Solei wrote:
>> Would it be possible to just determine the IP the user connects from and
>> base the server connection off of the location of the user?
>> That certainly makes more sense IMO.
>>     
>
> We could, but the issue with that would be that the connections would
> still be coming from the server the users are connecting through.
> For example, if a user comes from a California based IP, when they go
> to chat.anthrochat.net, they're connecting to Lion, and with CGI:IRC,
> the server initiates the connection to the IRC server, so it would
> increase lag to have lion make a connection to tixen or snowleopard
> rather then just connecting to the local server.
>
> The only way to combat this would be to have multiple servers running
> the CGI:IRC script, and have chat.anthrochat.net become a rotary like
> irc.anthrochat.net does, but locating a user by IP would complicate
> and slow the process of loading the chat application.  In addition to
> this, we would have to manage the chat application on multiple
> servers, which makes application upgrade concurrency a challenge,
> amongst other things.
>
> Personally, I think leaving this as it is now our best option moving forward.
>
> -Solei
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Well are there any web based clients out there that use the persons own 
connection instead vs the connection of the server?
Assuming there are none, then I think it would make more sense to shoot 
the web based clients to one server that exclusively handles them, and 
no one else. From a security standpoint it makes more sense IMO. If 
there is ever a huge abuse issue with webchat, you can just cut the 
server off if needed from the rest of the network. I would really like 
to see a web based client that uses each users IP address. This would 
cut down on ban evasions and help our channel owners, and would still 
maintain our goal of channel owner regulation of the network so to 
speak. The only downside to this is, how many people use our webchat to 
get around proxies? I would say some do, but is it really a huge 
significant number?

-Mirage