Oldest IRC Server Going Offline

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 9, 2001 @12:27PM from the /msg-grimreaper-go-away dept.

Matty_ writes: "Looks like the oldest IRC server in continued operation on the Internet is going to be turned off for good. According to the server's MOTD, the server will be shut off no later than January 1. Aparently the University of Colorado can no longer support the software and hardware, as well as provide the network resources, specifically the extra bandwidth required for the various DoS (Denial of Service) attacks from which EFnet servers still suffer. They chose not to accept the liability and decided to retire the server."

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Ah the sadness of it all by imrdkl · 2001-12-09 12:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic

> But ICQ is proprietary!?!?!
Re:offtopic but.. by foonf · 2001-12-09 13:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

att@home is really pissing me off, require constant renewal of DHCP leases.

Don't do it that way. Figure out how often, minimum, you need to have it done, and then use cron. Thats what its there for.

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