[AC-Admins] FW: Mibbit.com IP configuration change

[Harik]

Pippin Bear wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:59:39PM -0600, Kojak wrote:
>> We are just completing the final phase in our hosting move, which includes
>> a change for the main www.mibbit.com backend.
> 
> I like the generous amounts of advance warning they gave.
> 
> I've just updated bear and husky, but husky's still
> not in the main irc.anthrochat.net rotation (please
> could it be added?), and bear still rejects connections

Simba says husky is in the rotary - he just forgot to ack the list
when he did it.  Sorry.

> from mibbit.  This is presumably because of the bug noted on
> http://wiki.mibbit.com/index.php/Enable_Mibbit_on_Your_IRC_Server#Unrealircd
> which I can only assume means that the IPv6-enabled servers lion and bear
> (and husky, although it's not in the main rotary) have been rejecting
> Mibbit connections for quite some time.

I could define a mibbit rotary for the servers that support it, then
have them use that rather then irc?

Which servers definitely can/can't handle Mibbit?

> I'm not sure I want to spend the time compiling new ircds and to restart
> the servers just to patch this one bug which affects only Mibbit.
> Not sure if I want to run 3.2.8-rc1 in production.  Any idea when
> unrealircd 3.2.8 is likely to be finalised?  And looking at Mibbit's
> "patch available here" link, it's not obvious which patch might actually
> be the best to apply (the one linked-to in the last change is only a
> syntax cleanup patch AFAICS.

I'll look into it further, but this looks like the right patch here:
http://cvs.unrealircd.com/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/unreal/src/s_conf.c.diff?r1=1.1.1.1.6.1.2.355.2.84&r2=1.1.1.1.6.1.2.355.2.85&only_with_tag=unreal3_2_fixes

> Is it worth still supporting Mibbit, or would it be better just to ask
> them to remove any anthrochat specific configuration so that they won't
> try to use special CGI:IRC passwords and thus get rejected?

Yes.  Being able to ban individual users instead of everyone using
Mibbit is important.

> Would it be worth suggesting to Mibbit that they adjust their code to
> retry connections without using passwords if they see the "CGI:IRC --
> No access" message?

Yes.  Especially if they like moving their backend around without giving
server operators warning.