6.4 Resource Exhaustion
The mode based on masks defined in section 4.3 make the IRC servers
(and network) vulnerable to a simple abuse of the system: a single
channel operator can set as many different masks as possible on a
particular channel. This can easily cause the server to waste
memory, as well as network bandwidth (since the info is propagated to
other servers). For this reason it is RECOMMENDED that a limit be
put on the number of such masks per channels as mentioned in section
4.3.
Moreover, more complex mechanisms MAY be used to avoid having
redundant masks set for the same channel.
Other Links
- IRC Documents
- Glossry of IRC terms and abbreviations
- How to connect to SorceryNet
- List of IRC Client software
- Valinor SorceryNet Server Page
- SorceryNet Main Site
