Can BOPM scan users connecting to any server on my network?
The answer right now is “maybe”. There is also some doubt over whether you would actually want to. Remember that you can run multiple BOPM on one machine. Each BOPM can connect to a different IRC server to protect that server’s users. This can be helpful in situations where you have a Windows IRCD (because there is no Windows version of BOPM), where shell process limits prevent the running of BOPM, or where port scanning from a particular host is not desirable. We do not however regard this to be an ideal solution. We would prefer to write a version of BOPM that connects as a server and parses NICK commands in order to scan all users. Such a thing would be quite easy to write using libopm and the shell of BOPM, but we don’t really see a huge demand just yet. As for whether or not you would even want to do this… Advantages • Central maintenance – only one piece of software to install, configure, maintain, upgrade. • Less abuse problems – only one IP address to publicise as a scanner,
