irc {
/*
- * IP to bind to for the IRC connection. You only need to use this if
- * you wish HOPM to use a particular interface (virtual host, IP
- * alias, ...) when connecting to the IRC server. There is another
- * "vhost" setting in the scan {} block below for the actual
- * portscans. Note that this directive expects an IP address, not a
- * hostname. Please leave this commented out if you do not
+ * IP address to bind to for the IRC connection. You only need to
+ * use this if you wish HOPM to use a particular interface
+ * (virtual host, IP alias, ...) when connecting to the IRC server.
+ * There is another "vhost" setting in the scan {} block below for
+ * the actual portscans. Note that this directive expects an IP address,
+ * not a hostname. Please leave this commented out if you do not
* understand what it does, as most people don't need it.
*/
# vhost = "0.0.0.0";
username = "hopm";
/*
- * Hostname (or IP) of the IRC server which HOPM will monitor
+ * Hostname (or IP address) of the IRC server which HOPM will monitor
* connections on. IPv6 is now supported.
*/
server = "irc.example.org";
/*
* You can define a bunch of channels if you want:
*
- * channel { name = "#other"; }; channel { name="#channel"; }
+ * channel { name = "#other"; }; channel { name= "#channel"; }
*/
/*
*
* Items in order MUST be: nick user host IP
*
- * HOPM will not work with ircds which do not send an IP in the
+ * HOPM will not work with ircds which do not send an IP address in the
* connection notice.
*
* This is fairly complicated stuff, and the consequences of getting
* These options affect how the values specified to reply
* below will be interpreted, a bitmask is where the reply
* values are 2^n and more than one is added up, a reply is
- * simply where the last octet of the IP is that number.
+ * simply where the last octet of the IP address is that number.
* If you are not sure then the values set for dnsbl.dronebl.org
* will work without any changes.
*/
* Scanner defines a virtual scanner. For each user being scanned, a scanner
* will use a file descriptor (and subsequent connection) for each protocol.
* Once connecting it will negotiate the proxy to connect to
- * target_ip:target_port (target_ip MUST be an IP).
+ * target_ip:target_port (target_ip MUST be an IP address).
*
* Once connected, any data passed through the proxy will be checked to see if
* target_string is contained within that data. If it is the proxy is
protocol = HTTPPOST:80;
/*
- * IP this scanner will bind to. Use this if you need your scans to
+ * IP address this scanner will bind to. Use this if you need your scans to
* come FROM a particular interface on the machine you run HOPM from.
* If you don't understand what this means, please leave this
* commented out, as this is a major source of support queries!
* that send endless data to tie up your scanner. 4KB is plenty for
* any known proxy.
*/
- max_read = 4kb;
+ max_read = 4 kbytes;
/*
* Amount of time before a test is considered timed out.
* !!! THIS MUST BE CHANGED !!!
*
* You cannot instruct the proxy to connect to itself! The easiest
- * thing to do would be to set this to the IP of your ircd and then
- * keep the default target_strings.
+ * thing to do would be to set this to the IP address of your ircd
+ * and then keep the default target_strings.
*
- * Please use an IP that is publically reachable from anywhere on the
- * Internet, because you have no way of knowing where the insecure
+ * Please use an IP address that is publically reachable from anywhere
+ * on the Internet, because you have no way of knowing where the insecure
* proxies will be located. Just because you and your HOPM can
- * connect to your ircd on some private IP like 192.168.0.1, does not
- * mean that the insecure proxies out there on the Internet will be
+ * connect to your ircd on some private IP address like 192.168.0.1,
+ * does not mean that the insecure proxies out there on the Internet will be
* able to. And if they never connect, you will never detect them.
*
* Remember to change this setting for every scanner you configure.