See http://wiki.blitzed.org/BOPM According to modemhero, as I understand it, his server was being flooded with proxy server/tor style bogus connects causing legit users to be blocked from connecting. One possible solution is integrating something IRC servers have used to eradicate these types of attacks. How does it work? When a client connects to the IRC server, BOPM scans the client for open proxies. It then determines whether they are really open by using them to connect back to the server. -- We've Got Your Name at http://www.mail.com! Get a FREE E-mail Account Today - Choose From 100+ Domains -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20070718/a459c9bc/attachment.htm