IGNORE ADD [+expiry] <mask> [reason] / DEL <mask> / LIST. While a user
matches, the dispatch choke-point drops their service commands silently.
A mask with an @ matches nick!*@host (ident isn't tracked); a bare mask
matches the nick; matching is case-insensitive with lazy expiry. Admin-
only, and an operator is never ignored (so staff can't lock themselves
out). Node-local and in-memory, like the auth and request throttles — a
fast transient moderation tool, not persisted or federated.
Two channel operator tools:
- MODE <#chan> <modes> [params] forces a channel mode change (TS 1, so it
applies regardless of the current TS). A status-mode target may be given
as a nick — it's resolved to the uid the ircd's FMODE expects.
- KICK <#chan> <nick> [reason] removes a user, sourced from OperServ and
attributed to the operator.
Both admin-gated. To resolve status-mode params, channel-mode parameter
arity became one shared helper (chanmode_takes_param + STATUS_MODES in the
api): the ircd module now delegates to it instead of keeping its own copy,
so burst-parsing and MODE-building can never drift.
Generalise the network-ban store to carry the ircd X-line kind (defaulted
to the user@host G-line for existing records) so one event-sourced,
lazily-expiring, burst-reasserted list backs every ban type, and drive
ADD/DEL/LIST from one implementation per kind:
- AKILL stays the user@host G-line; SQLINE is a nick Q-line, its mask
validated as a nick glob (an @ is refused so an AKILL-shaped mask can't
become an over-broad nick ban). Both are keyed by (kind, mask).
- GLOBAL <message> announces to every user via a $* server-glob notice.
- KILL <nick> [reason] disconnects a user, attributed to the operator.
All four are admin-gated, and OperServ itself stays invisible to non-opers.
Bans and kills go out as typed actions (AddLine/DelLine/KillUser) the ircd
link serialises to ADDLINE/DELLINE/KILL.
The first operator module. AKILL manages network bans as a typed,
event-sourced list with lazy expiry, mirroring the patterns the other
modules use:
- AKILL ADD [+expiry] <user@host> <reason> stores the ban and drives an
ircd G-line (applied to matching users already online and to future
connections); AKILL DEL <mask|number> lifts it; AKILL LIST [pattern]
shows the live list, numbered. Admin-only.
- Bans are Global events, so every node holds the list and re-asserts each
one at burst with its remaining duration. Expired bans are hidden lazily
and dropped at compaction.
- Masks are normalised to user@host (a nick! prefix is stripped, both
sides lowercased) and an all-wildcard mask is refused.
Email (send_email) is already reachable from the api via ServiceCtx, and
adds AddLine/DelLine to the action vocabulary for any future X-line kinds.
