[37339] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Instant chats and central servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Slagle)
Wed May 9 13:16:44 2001
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 12:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@electro.semihuman.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
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No.
This is Dalnet's ircd. With an average of > 65000 users, encryption to
the CLIENT is not feasible.
Adding support probably wouldn't be too tricky to someone with C
expierence.
Jason
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> Can you require access via SSH tunnel?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Slagle [mailto:raistlin@tacorp.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:39 PM
> > To: Christopher A. Woodfield
> > Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Instant chats and central servers
> >
> >
> >
> > Newer versions of bahamut will do encrypted links. Just rc4.
> >
> > http://bahamut.dal.net
> >
> > Scalability while compressing to clients is a severly limiting factor
> > unless you only plan on using it locally.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > --
> > Jason Slagle - CCNP - CCDP
> > Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio
> > - raistlin@tacorp.net - jslagle@toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172
> > /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > . . . . . .
> > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . If dreams are like movies then memories
> > X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . are films about ghosts..
> > / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail . - Adam Duritz - Counting Crows
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This begs a question - does anyone have good experience
> > with SSL-enabled
> > > IRC servers? I'm testing UnrealIRCd right now, but I've run
> > into some
> > > showstopper bugs when trying to link servers over SSL. Any other
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:29PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:35:27AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > > > [snip]
> > > > > If folks are using this these services for real-time
> > communications,
> > > > > should we be trying to improve their reliability? Or
> > is this just a
> > > > > "feature" of how presence services work.
> > > >
> > > > We use IRC for internal communication, and for communication with
> > > > techies of several other Dutch ISPs. Works like a charm,
> > and the irc
> > > > server is local to us. If it's down, you pick another
> > irc-server on
> > > > the same network.
> > > >
> > > > Works for us, works for lot of people.
> > > >
> > > > Greetz, Peter.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
