Comment 1 for bug 717029

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Gunnar Beutner (gunnarbeutner) wrote :

1.3 should already be much more careful when it comes to ident lookups. By making sure that there are no partially connected IRC sessions (for which ident lookups might be pending) we shouldn't get any wrong idents.

As for external apps.. how would listing all connections help here?

Scenario A:
a) sbnc connects a user, writes all connections in its .oidentd.conf
b) eggdrop connects (doesn't update the oidentd file), gets no ident at all

Scenario B:

a) sbnc connects a user, writes all connections in its .oidentd.conf
b) eggdrop connects (updates the oidentd file), gets the right ident

Scenario C:

a) both sbnc and eggdrop update the ident file at the same time, eggdrop 'wins'
b) sbnc user has an incorrect ident response

Scenario D:
a) sbnc connects user A, updates oidentd file
b) sbnc connects another user (B), in 1.2 user A might get an incorrect ident if they're not fully connected yet - in 1.3 their irc connection would be killed

I don't see any improvement at all. Am I missing any scenarios here?