How do I go about disabling anti-flooding in inspIRCd? It is only an annoyance on a private chat.
No anti-flooding modules are enabled and all flooding-limits have been set to maximum - yet it still blocks posting for example an ascii image.
Any pointers in the right direction?
The short answer: you can't.
However:
You should also include a flood="x" line which indicates the number of lines a user may place into their buffer at once before they are disconnected for excess flood. This feature can not be disabled, however it can be set to extremely high values, rendering it effectively disabled. A recommended value is 10. A counter is maintained for each user which is reset every 'threshold' seconds and specifying this threshold value with threshold="X" indicates how often the counter is reset. For example, with flood="5" and threshold="8", the user may not send more than 5 lines in 8 secs.
This paragraph refers to the "connect" tag in /etc/inspircd/inspircd.conf which might look like this:
<connect allow="*" timeout="60"
flood="999999" threshold="1"
pingfreq="120"
sendq="262144" recvq="8192"
localmax="3" globalmax="3">
Unfortunately, I have not yet tried this out myself. Apparently, InspIRCd has every conceivable feature except good documentation, and having a "flood" Attribute in a "connect" tags made me assume that it refers to Connection flooding, not message flooding. So after three days of searching, I just built rate limiting into my bot.
