[AC-Admins] New version of UnrealIRCd is out

[Pippin Bear]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:14:52PM -0500, Scott Garron wrote:
>       UnrealIRCd released version 3.2.9 at the beginning of the month.

I do tend to leave these kind of things for a while rather than upgrading
to the bleeding edge versions as soon as they come out...  a couple
of weeks is probably enough though!  I'll try to get bear and husky
upgraded soonishly.

>       In addition, I've written a small patch to the channel invite

Presumably you've done it right, but I have to ask, how long do
invitations get suppressed for?  I'm not familiar enough with the
code for it to be obvious...  My guess is it's "until the user joins
the channel".  Not sure if that could be a problem; can invitations
carry messages?  If not, that's probably okay.  I'm just thinking that
if someone invites a user a second time to a channel and expects them
to see it (when they may have overlooked the first one) it may be cause
a problem.  Or may cause confusion when someone invites someone and says
"did you get that?"...  Probably a minor worry though and outweighed by
the antispam consideration.

I'm hoping to get a couple of new VM servers into my rack in the near
future, after which I'd like to move bear to its own little VM (where
we can also put backup services or whatever else we want).

FYI I'll attach my build procedure.  Working through it generates a
.tar.gz which I then copy to my two ircd hosts, unpack, and stuff all
the files into place under /usr/local/.  My configurations are written
to refer to those files in those locations, and I copy the files with
version number references and update them to refer to the new versions as
appropriate before restarting ircd and updating the servercheck cron job.
Rolling back is just a case of adjusting a few versioned includes in
the top-level config file and restarting the old version.

I'd guess no one else is likely to want to work that way, but that's
how I do it; maybe it'll help someone.

Yes, fresh SSL/TLS certificates would be good.  An alternative to
catsden, if, say, Cheetah doesn't have time any more, is to get them
from startssl.com, who do free domain-verified certificates.  I've been
using them for non-critical certificates for some months now.  There is
CAcert too, but last I checked their CA certificate wasn't very widely
recognised.  OTOH, it's probably more widely recognised than catsden's...

Pippin