Try using IRC SASL auth to circumvent Freenode Blacklist of AWS IP addresses

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Try using IRC SASL auth to circumvent Freenode Blacklist of AWS IP addresses

ramiro opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Ramiro Morales commented 7 years ago

It seems this is the problem we are having.

See e.g. for other cases:

cnaude/PurpleIRC#141

StackStorm-Exchange/stackstorm-irc#1

We need the bot to be authenticated as its registered nick to be able to join our channels. But as Freenode doesn't allow it to even connect, it is isn't possible to even get it to lurk and receive private messages.

Freenode SASL docs: http://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration http://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl

Unfortunately Twisted IRC doesn't have the ability to use SASL auth.

Shai Berger · Answer 1 · Mon Nov 27 2017 18:57:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Back in 2010 I wrote a chatbot using python-purple, but I don't know if it is still maintained.

Ramiro Morales · Answer 2 · Mon Nov 27 2017 19:46:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I went ahead and deployed the PR branch to Heroku to actually test it can log in to Freenode from the dyno IP address. It seems to be working: The bot is now available in our channels.