This will hide the *LINE reason to other users if the *LINE contains the
IP of the user. This to protect the privacy of the user for cases such
as a KLINE due to a blacklist with a DroneBL URL.
Other possible settings are `no` (never hide, the previous default) and
`yes` to always hide the *LINE reason. In all cases the user affected by
the server ban can still see the reason and IRCOps too.
https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=6362
This is quite a bit higher than client DNS lookups (1500ms first, on retry 3000ms)
and is because some DNSBL are reported to be quite a bit slower than ordinary DNS.
(Maybe just some, but.. the higher timeout does not hurt anyone anyway)
Note that all this has no effect on client handshake times, as DNSBL checks are
done in the background. Only side-effect is that if we do get a "late hit" then
you may now see a kill a few seconds after the client is online (which was actually
already possible before too for quick clients, but.. yeah...)
These settings can be overriden via set::dns, these are the defaults:
set {
dns {
client {
timeout 1500;
retry 2;
}
dnsbl {
timeout 3000;
retry 2;
}
}
}
When you REHASH we will check if the values are different than the current
c-ares settings and if so, reinitialize the resolver. Reinitializing the
resolver will destroy outstanding DNS requests, eg DNS lookups for clients
currently connecting, but so be it. Not a super-huge issue since changing
this is rare.
Requested by BlackBishop in https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=6306
you can now configure to hide the message content in spamfilter hit
messages. Generally it is very useful to see if a spamfilter hit is
correct or not, so the default is 'always', but it also has privacy
implications so there is now this option to disable it.
Suggested by alice, quite a while ago.
https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Set_block#set::spamfilter::show-message-content-on-hit
Also as mentioned there:
UnrealIRCd has the following spying countermeasure (for many years) to help
that spamfilters are not abused for spying. When a spamfilter hit happens
that has an action like gline or blocking, it is visible to the user that an
action was taken. There is also the action 'warn', which means: take no
action and only warn IRCOps, that one would be easy to use as a spy tool, so
when this happens and message content was revealed, numeric 659
(RPL_SPAMCMDFWD) is sent to the client to indicate that the message is
allowed through but IRCOps were informed.
With this new set::spamfilter::show-message-content-on-hit feature, when
the message content was hidden due to this setting (eg due to 'never' or
'channel-only'), the warn message will not be sent as there is no need to
inform the user in such a case.
to limit actions to limit-ban-action as the highest, and limit
ban times to limit-ban-time the highest, see
https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Central_Spamfilter
This also changes highest_spamfilter_action() to highest_ban_action().
* This means we always run spamfilters, even if users are exempts
* This way we can gather hits for exempted users on individual
spamfilter entries, and possibly detect false positives
(which relies on the assumption that those users are innocent)
* The hit counters are shown in in RPL_STATSSPAMF and also
exposed via the JSON-RCP API.
* This commit also adds set::central-spamfilter::except but more
on that later since i still want to set a default for that in
a future commit.
* This also changes take_action() to take flags and adds the
option TAKE_ACTION_SIMULATE_USER_ACTION which i intended to
use but didn't in the end... not sure if i should keep it :D
It is now possible to override some set settings per-security group by
having a set block with a name, like `set unknown-users { }`
* You could use this to set more limitations for unknown-users:
```
set unknown-users {
max-channels-per-user 5;
static-quit "Quit";
static-part yes;
}
```
* Or to set higher values (higher than the normal set block)
for trusted users:
```
security-group trusted-bots {
account { BotOne; BotTwo; }
}
set trusted-bots {
max-channels-per-user 25;
}
```
* Currently the following settings can be used in a set xxx { } block:
set::auto-join, set::modes-on-connect, set::restrict-usermodes,
set::max-channels-per-user, set::static-quit, set::static-part.
the default set::max-channels-per-user (also called set::maxchannelsperuser).
This way you can give known-users a higher max-channels-per-user,
or even a special security group for trusted users (that you may
already have given a more lax flood setting and lower lag-penalty
etc. etc. so that fits in nicely)
And yeah this also:
* Makes it both in set and the anti-flood block accept both
maxchannelsperuser and max-channels-per-user.
* Removes old MAXCHANNELS= in 005, as we already have CHANLIMIT=
This does not:
* Re-announce the 005 CHANLIMIT= if someone transitions from a security
group with a different max-channels-per-user. We don't do that for
IRCOps either, and I think no IRCd does that actually...
To be honest i wonder if sending the limit in 005 is useful at all,
do client really track this and limit their GUI based on it?? Doubt it!
https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Set_block#set%3A%3Ahandshake-boot-delay
which allows server linking autoconnects to kick in (and incoming
servers on serversonly ports), before allowing clients in. This
potentially avoids part of the mess when initially linking on-boot.
This option is not turned on by default, you have to set it explicitly.
* This is not a useful feature on hubs, as they don't have clients.
* It can be useful on client servers, if you `autoconnect` to your hub.
* If you connect services to a server with clients this can be useful
as well, especially in single-server setups. You would have to set
a low `retrywait` in your anope conf (or similar services package)
of like `5s` instead of the default `60s`.
Then after an IRCd restart, your services link in before your clients
and your IRC users have SASL available straight from the start.
This was previously tried at 19-apr-2020 in bc70882bd3
in UnrealIRCd 5.0.5. Sadly it had to be reverted immediately with a quick 5.0.5.1
release, all because of a PCRE2 100% CPU usage. Since then that bug has been fixed,
plus another bug. I'm now readding it "as an option" that is marked experimental.
Hopefully people test it out and can report back if it works well and then we can
make it the default someday.
This makes it a runtime setting so makes it much easier to switch back/forth if
there are any issues without recompiling anything. Had to use a bit more code now
though to handle the recompiling of spamfilters if the setting is changed.
Original issue was https://bugs.unrealircd.org/view.php?id=5187
* [Spamfilter](https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Spamfilter) can be made UTF8-aware.
* This is experimental, to enable: `set { spamfilter { utf8 yes; } }``
* Case insensitive matches will then work better. For example, with extended
Latin, a spamfilter on `ę` then also matches `Ę`.
* Other PCRE2 features such as [\p](https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2syntax.html#SEC5)
can then be used. For example you can then set a spamfilter with the regex
`\p{Arabic}` to block all Arabic script.
Please do use these new tools with care. Blocking an entire language
or script is quite a drastic measure.
* As a consequence of this we require PCRE2 10.36 or newer. If your system
PCRE2 is older than this will mean the UnrealIRCd-shipped-library version
will be compiled and `./Config` may take a little longer than usual.
When you set this to 'yes' you get more options...
See next (modified) copy-paste from April 2020, which had to be reverted
because PCRE2 was broken. Now it's an opt-in and hopefully matured a bit.
This means:
* Case insensitive matches work better in UTF8 now, such as extended Latin.
For example, a spamfilter on "ę" now also matches "Ę", while previously
it did not catch this.
* Other PCRE2 features such as https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2syntax.html#SEC5
are now available. For example you can now set a spamfilter with the regex
\p{Arabic} to block all Arabic script, or
\p{Cyrillic} to block all Cyrillic script (such as Russian)
Use these new tools with care, of course. Blocking an entire language,
or script, is quite a drastic measure.
All of this was possible because of the new PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF
compile time option which was introduced in PCRE2 10.34. Now, that
version turned out to be buggy. As recent as PCRE 10.36 some major bugs
were fixed. This also means we now require at least PCRE2 10.36 version
so everyone can benefit from this new spamfilter UTF8 feature, IF they
enable set::spamfilter::utf8-support, that is.
Many systems come with older PCRE2 versions so this means we will
fall back to the shipped PCRE2 version in UnrealIRCd. This means
./Config will take a little longer to compile things.
For packagers (rpm/deb/ports): if you choose to patch configure to
not require such a recent PCRE2, then please do not allow enabling
of set::spamfilter::utf8-support since it will likely cause crashes
and misbehavior. Check PCRE2 changelog, CTRL+F at PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF
configuration file via set::named-extended-bans <yes|no>; and now
defaults to yes.
Still to do:
* explicitly set names instead of using stupid module names
* update test suite to check for these new names (other git tree)
* backwards compatible sending to U5 and lower using ugly shit
these "network settings" and other settings has been lost in time.
Rename some of these variables and macro's.
ircnetwork -> NETWORK_NAME
ircnet005 -> NETWORK_NAME_005
defserv ->? DEFAULT_SERVER
hidden_host -> CLOAK_PREFIX
helpchan -> HELP_CHANNEL
Also one config change (visible to admins):
set::hiddenhost-prefix is now set::cloak-prefix
We still accept the old name, though.
The example conf has been updated as well, but not the wiki yet.
snomasks, opers, global (remote), ..
For disk logs we currently ignore the sources and log everything.
NOTE: REHASH is untested and will memory leak for sure.
Note that without such a block nothing will be sent to ircops at all
(anything that comes from unreal_log anyway).
In a later commit either a snomasks.default.conf will be added and/or
an internal default mapping.
This also moves the recursion trap to earlier in the logging code,
which has the side effect that debug traffic regarding snomasks is
no longer logged.
for "unknown-users" and "known-users".
As a reminder, by default, "known-users" are users who are identified
to services OR are on an IP that has been connected for over 2 hours
in the past X days.
See https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/FAQ#new-anti-flood-block
for more information on the layout of the new block.
NOTE: This actual feature, the relase notes and the documentation
are all work in progress.
form an insecure connection. There we explain a bit on the why and how to
configure some random IRC clients.
This also silently adds support for multi-line messages in
set::plaintext-policy::user-message (for warn) and
set::plaintext-policy::oper-message (for warn and deny).
Remove old option set::ban-include-username and replace it with a more
generic option which defines what target a ban should apply to.
Also add some parts of set::manual-ban-target which will follow soon.
session after a 15 seconds timeout. The exact timeout value can be
changed by adjusting set::sasl-timeout, which should be (quite a bit)
less than set::handshake-timeout by the way. 15<30 now, so fine.
We actually have 3 possible settings of set::allowed-channelchars:
utf8: Channel must be valid UTF8, this is the new default
ascii: A very strict setting, for example in use at freenode,
the channel name may not contain high ascii or UTF8
any: A very loose setting, which allows almost all characters
in the channel name. This was the OLD default, up to and
including UnrealIRCd 4. It is no longer recommended.
For most networks this new default setting of utf8 will be fine, since
by far most IRC clients use UTF8 for many years already.
If you have a network that has a significant portion of chatters
that are on old non-UTF8 clients that use a specific character set
then you may want to use set { allowed-nickchars any; }
Some Russian and Ukrainian networks are known to need this.
Devs: src/utf8.c has been added which will be used by this and
by other functionality later.
aChannel to Channel, and some more. Third party module coders will
love this. But.. it makes things more logical and the doxygen output
will look more clean and logical as well.
(More changes will follow)
Bram Matthys