Re: Undernet/telnet attempts?

[opus () IRCORE COM (Opus)]

please email me privately so as not promoting my network here in a
listserv, and i will then show you the log of you connecting, if you tell
me you had connected, i do not log as to whether i find you being a open
proxy, i log that you connected to my network, i trust the code that i
have written, and the only complaints i have received is from those not
knowing how to configure their proxy software, once they have configured
their software, they are able to connect.

This is not a kiddy network this is a successful financial trading
network.  If you are seriously in doubt and concerned about the integrity
of such matters, i would even be willing to show you the source code.  I
can not obviously vouge for everyone, but the concept that it is trying to
cover is as sound as can be without jeapordizing the 97% of users who do
not abuse such things.

Chris Birch
IRCore
opus@ircore,com

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 tibor () lib uaa alaska edu wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Opus wrote:
>
> > I have written such a service and basically whatt is done is port 23 is
> > checked for wingate and a wingate prompt, if one is seen then the client
> > is immediately removed from the server with a gline.  The other port is
> > 1080 SOCKS and it is checked for a specific hex pattern to determine if it
> > infact is responding as an open SOCKS proxy, both are considered bad in
> > the irc community for its ability to allow anyone to use them from the
> > outside, thus evading bans and glines imposed for various reasons.
>
> Hmmm... I've connected to a couple of different Undernet IRC servers
> today, as well as telnet.chatsystems.com to try to see if I could trigger
> a probe, but haven't seen anything after several hours.
>
> This, along with the fact that they have no logs to back up their claim
> that probes are only triggered by IRC connections, doesn't make me
> particularly confident that they're being honest.
>
> Mike
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