[68794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Tue Mar 16 21:21:22 2004
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:20:41 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: jlewis@lewis.org
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403161221350.1969@web1.mmaero.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:
> > Hmm, if someone (except masochists and security vendiors) still hosts
> > efnet... I can only send them my condoleences.
> >
> > I saw sthe same dialogs 6 years ago. Nothing changes.
>
> What about undernet?
Thats even worse :)
> A customer wants us to help him setup an undernet IRC server. My gut
> feeling is, hosting IRC servers (especially on the well known networks)
> is like wearing a "kick me/flood me" sign on your network, and it's
> probably not going to be worth the pain & pages.
Sounds about right.
Unless you feel like charging someone several thousands of dollars per
month to host an EFNet server, don't do it unless you have a personal
interest.