- Remote MOTD support. Not adequately tested. Required restructuring of the asynchronous download callback and handler.
- Added some consts throughout url.c, etc.
- Fix segfault where the an include directive specifies a URL and cURL follows redirects, resulting in a different resultant URL. The remote includes code would look for the an include block using the resultant URL and assume that it would be found. The new code searches differently, has new checks, and ignores the resultant URL.
- Removed duplicated m_motd() and friends that were both in modules and s_serv.c. The copies in s_serv.c (core) were overriding the in-module functions.
descriptors. Because of this, Unreal did not restart properly as you would
get an "Address already in use" error. This only seemed to happen when
logging to syslog.
- Fixed a similar issue with syslog (and debugmode) and closing fd's as well:
the first port we listened on would not open up, ircd did not log any error.
load (for example when the webserver is down), then the most recent
version of that remote include will be used, and the ircd will still boot
and be able to rehash. Even though this is quite a simple feature, it
can make a key difference when deciding to roll out remote includes on
your network. Previously, servers would be unable to boot or rehash when
the webserver was down, which would be a big problem (often unacceptable).
The latest version of fetched urls are cached in the cache/ directory as
cache/<md5 hash of url>.
Obviously, if there's no 'latest version' and an url fails, the ircd will
still not be able to boot. This would be the case if you added or changed
the path of a remote include and it's trying to fetch it for the first time.
To disable this new behavior, check out REMOTEINC_SPECIALCACHE in
include/config.h.
timesynch) made autoconnect not work for the duration of the offset
(eg: -60 would make autoconnect wait 60 seconds after boot, instead of
autoconnecting almost immediately). Reported by aragon (#0003853).
In the IRCd world correct time is very important. This means that time
should be correct when the IRCd is booted, either by running ntpd/ntpdate
on the system or some other synchronization software, or by using the
built-in timesync feature.
Whenever the clock is adjusted for more than a few seconds AFTER the IRCd
has booted, it can lead to dangerous effects ranging from unfair
timestamps
for nicks and channels (and hence the possibility to takeover channels),
to even completely stalling the IRCd (negative timeshift) or making it so
nobody can connect anymore due to throttling (positive timeshift).
We now try to 'fix' the worst effects such as the IRCd freeze and
throttling. This does not fix the whole problem, so I've added some big
warnings when the clock is adjusted, including an annoying one every 5
minutes if the clock was set backwards, until the time is OK again
(catches up with the original time).
This fixes#0003230 reported by Stealth, and #0002521 reported by durrie.
set::spamfilter::slowdetect-fatal, set::ssl::server-cipher-list,
set::ssl::renegotiate-bytes, set::ssl::renegotiate-timeout,
set::watch-away-notification and ./unreal gencloak. Reported by Bock
(#0003764).
- set::ssl::renegotiate-bytes: fix when specifying a value such as 10m.
- './unreal gencloak' now actually works
- Fix typo in user mode q notice, reported by Strawberry_Kittens and others
(#0003761).
- Possible fix for MAC OS X compile problem - UNCONFIRMED.
trying to read unrealircd.conf. All due to strange chmod() behavior. We now no
longer try to set permissions on Mac OS X. Patch provided by Tibby (#3489).
defines IRC_USER, IRC_GROUP which is a string specifiying what user name/
group name that should be changed into, instead of a hardcoded gid/uid.
This should make it easier for packaged binary releases to work (even
though this probably means Debian will take us in, ick .. Can't we pull
a new fight with debian-legal again?)
- #0003363 patched by adrianp, changing IRC_UID and IRC_GID into
defines IRC_USER, IRC_GROUP which is a string specifiying what user name/
group name that should be changed into, instead of a hardcoded gid/uid.
This should make it easier for packaged binary releases to work (even
though this probably means Debian will take us in, ick .. Can't we pull
a new fight with debian-legal again?)
error, reported by Bock (#0003114).
- Added information about extbans to help.conf (/HELPOP ?EXTBANS). Patch from Bock
(#0003113).
- Made SAPART work for mulitple channels, just like SAJOIN. Patch provided by Bock
(#0003064). This also fixes SAPART now being announced to all opers globally, just
like SAJOIN.
- Finally fixed /RESTART issue on windows for good, should now always restart correctly.
Patch provided by BuHHunyx and Bock (#0002734).
synchronize the IRCd clock (TSOffset) with a few good time servers. It currently only does
this on-boot, but it will hopefully help a lot of people with most of their time differences.
I still keep recommending anyone who can to run proper time-synchronization software such as
ntpd/ntpdate on their servers.
To disable time synchronization (eg: because you are already running ntp), you can simply
set set::timesynch::enabled to no.
The boot timeout for the timeserver response (=causes boot delay) can be configured via
set::timesynch::timeout and is set to 3 seconds by default (range is 1s-5s), there should
be no reason to change this.
The time server can be configured by setting set::timesynch::server, the default is to
use 3 time servers on 3 continents (US, EU, AU) which should be sufficient for anyone but
if you got a good one near you you can use that one instead.
The time protocol we use is (S)NTP v4.
- '/quote dns i' now shows the nameserver settings (which is taken from /etc/resolv.conf
on *NIX, and from the registry on Windows)
- We no longer depend on a C++ compiler (was useless c-ares dependency caused by libtool)
- '/REHASH -dns' now rereads the resolver data from resolv.conf/registry, no IRCd restart
needed anymore. It's currently kinda experimental however, but I *think* it will work ok.
Unfortunately the above features required some ugly hacks if curl was enabled, so if you
use curl (Remote includes), feel free to test on your OS (Linux, but especially FreeBSD
and the other *NIXes) to see if things still compile (make clean; ./Config && make).
- Redid some net synching code to make it more efficient (#2716).
- Fixed spamfilter crash problem: the action 'viruschan' is now no longer incompatible
with target 'user'. Reported by Monk (#0002570).
This should get rid of some annoying untracable (and usually rare) crashbugs in the
old resolver. Besides that, it makes things look more clean and understandable.
This should be the fix for the following bugids (all the same issue): #2499, #2551, #2558,
#2559, #2603, #2642, #2502, #2501, #2618, #2616.
Feedback and testing is very much welcomed (syzop@unrealircd.com).
It also sends a numeric to the user saying the command has been processed, but a copy
has been sent to ircops. I feel this is a good idea for privacy reasons (anti-spy),
though I don't know how users will react to this. If you are using this on your network
and get users bothering you about it (or before that ;p), it's probably a good idea
to explain it somewhere on your site or FAQ :).
Example usage:
/spamfilter add p warn - Testing_mirc_decode_filter \$decode\(.*\)
[WARNING] The numeric text is likely to change in the next few weeks (early-cvs-commit).
- If a class block was removed and any other blocks would be referencing the class block
(such as: allow::class, oper::class, link::class), then this would cause a crash.
Reported by Mike_ (#0002646).
- CMDLINE_CONFIG behavior change: command line configuration is now still permitted
if #undef'ed (which is the default) if uid==euid && gid==egid, since it doesn't make
any sense to disable it then and is in fact just plain annoying.
- Added FAKELAG_CONFIGURABLE option in include/config.h, this enables an option called
class::options::nofakelag, which disables "fake lag" for a certain class (that is:
the artificial delay introduced by the ircd to prevent flooding is turned off,
allowing the user to flood at full speed).
IT'S USE IS DISCOURAGED UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
Sorry, option is not in ./Config -advanced since I don't get autoconf working, but it's
such a scary option that this might as well be a good idea to keep in config.h anyway.
This feature has been suggested for several years (and refused), but the final
suggestion (with implementation specific hints) came from Gilou in bug #0002207.
- changed a comment slightly in m_tkl.c to get rid of harmless warning ;)
still cutoff if the nick is too long. Basically this is the same way as Hybrid does it
so it should work ok :).
- Added nick character system. This allows you to choose which (additional) characters
to allow in nicks via set::allowed-nickchars. See unreal32docs.html -> section 3.16
for a list of available languages and more info on how to use it.
Current list: dutch, french, german, italian, spanish, euro-west, chinese-trad,
chinese-simp, chinese-ja, chinese.
If you wonder why your language is not yet included or why a certain mistake is present,
then please understand that we are most likely not experienced (at all) in your language.
If you are a native of your language (or know the language well), and your language
is not included yet or you have some corrections, then contact syzop@vulnscan.org or
report it as a bug on http://bugs.unrealircd.org/
throttle the number of joins per-user to X in Y seconds. Idea from Angrywolf (who
wrote a module that did this before). This might need some more testing :).
It's enabled by default but can be #undef'ed in include/config.h (line 449).
work just the same as the HOOKTYPE_LOCAL_* variants).
- Module coders: HOOKTYPE_REMOTE_CONNECT is now also called during net-merge. You can use
IsSynched(sptr->srvptr) to find out if it's called due to a net merge (0) or a connect (1).
- Added spamfiler 'user' (u) target. This regex is checked against nick!user@host:realname
when a user connects. This makes it easy to ban drones with simple patterns.
For example: '/spamfilter add u gzline 86400 Drone[0-9]+!.+@.+:Drone[0-9]'
would kill any drones that have both a nick and realname with 'Drone' followed by digits.
- Added release notes (no, we won't release 3.2.1 anytime soon.. just updating ;p).
- Added various extra messages to make it a bit more easier for people who are
upgrading (win32 commands.dll, cloaking mod).
- Made win32 ssl<->non-ssl modules binary compatible.
- Added ssl/non-ssl check in Mod_Version on *NIX.
- Added set::options::flat-map: This makes all servers look like they are linked
directly to the server you are on (/map, /links), thus you cannot see which server
is linked to which ("hopcount"). This can make it a bit harder for kiddies to find
any 'weak spots' (which server to attack/[D]DoS). Obviously opers will always
see the real map.
Bram Matthys