Austnet makes mibbit easy

Written by Scott | 03 July 2009

While quite a few networks have targeted Mibbit for an ass wooping, i.e banning it with and without much of a reason Austnet is one of the few networks that had looked to embrace Mibbit and make it a whole lot easier to use and tackle - more so for channel administrators.

They released a quick idea of what will happen when it comes to managing mibbit based users:

Identifying to your nickname may not be possible due to a host mismatch. Mibbit clients who utilise the NickOP “USEHOSTLIST” security setting should ensure this setting is either temporarily disabled or ensure they have added their actual host/ip to NickOP so they will be recognised after the change.
Channel bans on *!*@*.mibbit.com will no longer stop clients using Mibbit from joining your channel. If you really want to ban Mibbit clients entirely, use *!mibbit@* after the change.
Channel bans on *!XXXXXXXX@*.mibbit.com will no longer stop Mibbit clients from base16 IP XXXXXXXX from joining your channel. If you really want to ban these clients (whether they use Mibbit or not), ban the base10 IP in the form *!*@NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN to convert base16 to base10 in mIRC, use //echo -a $longip($base(XXXXXXXX,16,10))
/ignore and /silence entries should also be reviewed

Since the initial posting of this article the Austnet team have also been in contact with the Mibbit people whom have agreed to forward the connections to a specific server.. see below:

Update: the upgrade has been partially applied to the network, please use atlantis.austnet.org to preview the change before it is applied globally to the network. Mibbit have been kind enough to add AustNet to their networks list and forward all connections to atlantis.austnet.org, please ensure you select “AustNET” from the drop-down list when connecting via webchat.mibbit.com. It is still possible to connect to the other AustNet servers through mibbit, but please be aware the host changing will currently only apply if you use atlantis.austnet.org!