Slightly off-topic but an intersecting article which includes a script for a perl DoS client that can managed via IRC
http://draios.com/fishing-for-hackers/ On Thursday, May 8, 2014, David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2014 15:24:05 -0400 > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > I am a complete and total novice to irc. Never used and never wanted > > to before. > > > > Rather than put my vast ignorance on display and annoy the heck out of > > others on the channel, I'd like to extract information from the irc > > servers and write it to disk. > > > > My most often used scripting language is perl so I wondered if there > > is already a perl module that will allow me to do that. > > Bot::BasicBot will allow you to write an IRC bot; irssi, XChat and > others support Perl scripting for "plugins" to add features to the > client. > > However, I think there are better tools at your disposal... > > > Here is an example of the kind of mess you can get into: > > > > Connecting to irc.freenode.net and foolishly but at least not > > malignantly using the 'list' command. > > > > /list > > > > It spewed out so many lines that just kept coming until I finally > > ^ c'ed over and over to get it to stop. > > Yeah, /list is a useless command on big networks. > > On Freenode, try "/q alis help" - alis is a channel listing service > which allows you to search for channels by pattern. > > There's also irc.netsplit.de's IRC server/channel search engine: > > http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode > > > -- > David Precious ("bigpresh") <dav...@preshweb.co.uk <javascript:;>> > http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter > www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook > www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org <javascript:;> > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk
