[39488] in North American Network Operators' Group
IRC/RELAY -0- the saga goes on [was Re: DDoS attacks]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Clegg)
Thu Jul 12 10:24:39 2001
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:27:10 -0400
From: Alan Clegg <alan@clegg.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21_heb2.09.0107111913360.13329-100000@fireball.tau.ac.il>; from ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:21:36PM +0300
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Issues surrounding IRC go back to the days when we invented it (anyone here
remember the RELAY network on BITNET?). For some good reading, check out:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/fred/relay/relhis.html
And read the section labeled "The Growing Pains" where we ran into problems
when we had 30 (thirty) people connected.
AlanC {been there, done that, have the NETCON tee-shirt}
