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Can somebody tell me, what "kline" means? I never heard that word and dont find a dictionary entry.
by itry 14y ago
Can somebody tell me, what "kline" means? I never heard that word and dont find a dictionary entry.
- dpcx 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(IRC)#K-line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(IRC)#K-line
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agokline is short for "kill line" and refers to lines in configuration files for IRC daemons (IRCd), i.e. IP ban.
- akx 14y agokline (K-line) basically [K]ills a network or IP block, forbidding them from connecting to the IRC server. (I think the term stems from the config files for the original ircd, circa 1988)
- kenny_r 14y agoIt's IRC terminology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd#K-line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd#K-line
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- sgift 14y agoA K-Line is a ban of an client (or multiple clients) from an irc network: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(IRC)#K-line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(IRC)#K-line
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- ahf 14y agoIt is an IRC term for a "kill line". If your host tuple (nickname, username and hostname) somehow matches the kill line, your connection to the server will be closed with a message on why it was closed.
- mikeash 14y agoI was just musing that the only word in this headline recognizable to someone outside this small subset of the tech world is "all", and yet it makes perfect sense if you know all the words.
- mturmon 14y agoHappened to me. Incomprehension is the reason I clicked the link.
- gav 14y agoThe short answer is that they've banned all users connecting from those IP blocks,. Various *-lines for IRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd#Configuration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd#Configuration
- raphidae 14y agoJust to clarify: most servers haven't K:lined the blocks, but D:lined them (even though the efnet.org article says 'klines'). K:line = kill line, D:line = deny line. The difference is where the check happens, after the client has had a chance to identify and a identd response is received or not, or at the TCP level on remote IP address alone (D:Line). D:Lines are less resource intensive obviously. Not much difference for the client though :)