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Message #01298
Re: The Continuing Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on freenode
Everyone is welcome to establish a channel on the DALnet IRC Network,
irc.dal.net. If I can be of any assistance, please let me know. I serve
as a network and services operator there. If need be, please contact me
online, Freenode or DALnet.
Bradley Claghorn, Jr.
Visigoth @ IRC
On 06/06/2013 07:07 AM, James Gifford wrote:
> Oh, and if we decide XMPP is the way to go, I have a server (well, my
> company has one that it isn't using for a lot right now, so it can
> donate bandwidth and CPU cycles).
>
> On Jun 6, 2013 7:05 AM, "James Gifford" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> While I personally will be hanging out in the oftc network, that's
> more because I'm dealing with Debian systems at work right now.
>
> On the other hand, I don't think that we should expect email-level
> of reliability or availability from IRC.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Jun 5, 2013 4:38 PM, "Stephen Michael Kellat"
> <skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:skellat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> In light of the continuing Distributed Denial of Service attacks
> on freenode, I'm putting the following questions to the Ohio
> LoCo for consideration:
>
> 1. Can we establish an XMPP/Jabber conference room as a logged
> fall-back position if the situation on freenode's part continues
> to deteriorate?
>
> 2. Has anybody made concerns known to the IRC Council about the
> health of freenode as of late?
>
> 3. We have roughly 20 members idling in the channel normally.
> How effectively is IRC serving us as a means of communication?
>
> I look forward to a lively discussion of those questions.
>
> Stephen Michael Kellat
> POC & Leader
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>
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