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"Erroneous Nickname" errors on swear words #103
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(there's also https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SYN-729 for a partial mitigation by banning 'bad' words on the synapse side) |
Right so the way IRCds seem to do this is they return 432 (erroneous nick) as a challenge much like they would return 433 (nick in use) on connect. They then hold open the connection for a bit to give you time to return a valid nick, then time out. There is no Interestingly, XChat has a rather horrible UX for this where it erroneously states:
Most likely because it is assuming that any challenges are due to them being in use, even though the raw log clearly states Erroneous Nickname. Fun times. |
Tested patch and it "fixes" it (as best as we can fix such things...). |
…sing a random nick
So 0.3.1 made the bridge follow the RFC (mostly) and everyone was happy. However, some networks have swear word filters on nicknames, which produce:
This then triggers another reconnect ad infinitum. I am not even going to attempt to maintain a swear word list for the bridge. Instead, we should just assume that for whatever reason that nick is bad, we can't do anything about it, and then assign a random hex string (much like how IRCds resolve nick conflicts on netsplits in fact).
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