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EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections
Mortin writes "The largest IRC network in the world, EFNet, has set another world-record max user count after breaking an astonishing 100,000 concurrent users earlier tonight!"
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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, we must be cautious.
But DALnet, as with any other network that reaches this size -- including EFnet -- has more than its fair share of problems. The lag and netsplits get intolerable at this level. Also, networks of this size can be difficult to connect to due to script kiddies, server overload, etc (or in the case of EFnet, yellowbellied admins who refuse to open up their I: lines). I personally know of large channels that have recently moved off of both networks because of these problems. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing that it has hit this size, but no network can handle infinite users. A userload like this brings out a network's weaknesses in full force.
I pledge allegiance to the flag...
of the Corporate States of America...
And you thought Efnet was dead or dying.
Well, it's not like the college students at Harvard or Emory are doing the DDoS, it's the people (aka some pimply faced low-lifes still living in their parents basements without a job) who hacked into the Harvard/Emory machines that are the cause of the problem. It's also the fault of the Harvard/Emory admins for not noticing and not doing something to stop said attacks.
Seriously, I do - to a small extent.
Why? Well, I've had a feeling that IRC is slowly dying off. The people just getting hooked on computers and using the Internet nowdays seem to prefer instant message clients like ICQ or AIM.
I used to spend a lot of time on EFNet, and later, Undernet - and got the impression that both were declining in actual usage. (Sure, they have tons of channels still - but many seem to just be file swapping channels with no actual discussion taking place in them.)
Just the fact that EFNet broke its own all-time usage records yesterday is interesting. I wouldn't have ever guessed it.
...probably there are no more than a couple hundred users using IRC at the same time around the world. All the others are bots, fake, trolls, IA trying to understand the human beings, and so on...
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
Just a correction, Napster's peak user loan was 2.2 million simultaneous connections, not 1.5 million.
I'm not completely sure that Kazaa doesn't inflate their numbers (its fairly hard to get truly accurate counts of connections in a distirbuted network.)
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
This article, along with crap such as this and this, simply proves /. editors are out-of-touch with what is really going on in geekdom and what can truly pass as "news for nerds". It's almost as if /. has outlived itself, or maybe it's time for some fresh blood who have a clue.
/. groupies will mod this down in record time, but to you I say: Get a life, stop being a follower, and use the energy you would otherwise use to get into a snit and start pressuring the /. editors to bring us meaningful, timely content.
I'm sure the
- Do 1 hour volunteer work a day
- Practice the violin/piano/guitar 1 hour a day
- Read to their kids 1 hour a day
- Read a book 1 hour a day
As it is, they probably each spend 4-5 hours a day chatting with perverts, pedophiles, and pirates on IRC.Which turned the attacks on the kiddies themselves?
Assuming these attacks were sending excessive traffic to the servers, how would the server IP address being changed to localhost make the kiddies attack themselves? Are you trying to say that it's possible to flood yourself off the net by sending packets to your loop back device?
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Bravo for being sure you will get modded down for slamming the /. groupies, slamming them, and then getting modded up!