General Concept

When a network device (such as a phone, tablet, or laptop) considered bound to a user is online, they user is considered online.

• inspect DHCP leases, potentially
• use NAT state table, potentially
• opt in? opt out?
• deduce by using the checkins from a user corellated with various "equipment presence traces" derived from network intelligence?
• problems where users abuse the system to monitor others without their consent? Is this only an issue if it can be done without people on the IRC channel noticing? If so, a note must be made of this to avoid conflicts with any future feature that allows this system to be used except via IRC.

In some situations, there is a bank of IPs that can be routed over for NAT connections.

• specify as a list (of hostnames to look up, or IPs)
• auto learn mode - any mask that the bot has found itself using in the last X days?
• work with ipv6?
• try getip services repeatedly?

I'll need to analyze the most common load balancing strategies for NAT exit nodes for this to make sense.

• detect in same routed block, assume /64 if not specified on command line
• compare hosts on irc to own ipv4 and ipv6 at the same time
• determine what ip is based on whether own machine's ipv6 address is globally routable

Like !people, but doesn't say anything if it doesn't find anyone.

Work with:

• freenode web gateway
• cgi:irc with identd.pl (and anything else that encodes IP in the ident field)

Periodically and on-change, broadcast JSON via ZeroMQ PUB socket (bind side). Format should be:

{
  'users_present' : ['list', 'of', 'people']
}

The format is to allow easier extension of the API later. Future features may include things such as how long the user's been present, details about how the user is known to be present, etc.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./floyd", line 165, in
s.run()
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mediorc/init.py", line 101, in run
self.client.ircobj.process_once(0.2)
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 261, in process_once
self.process_data(i)
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 218, in process_data
c.process_data()
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 578, in process_data
self._process_line(line)
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 668, in _process_line
self._handle_event(event)
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 672, in _handle_event
self.irclibobj._handle_event(self, event)
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 400, in _handle_event
result = handler.callback(connection, event)
File "/home/eastein/venv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/irc/client.py", line 1226, in _dispatcher
method(connection, event)
File "./floyd", line 94, in on_join
hm = e.source()
TypeError: 'NickMask' object is not callable