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EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-people-looking-for-pr0n dept.

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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  1. KaZaA by Cryogenes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    has just broken the 3.000.000 concurrent users level
    (that's twice what Napster had at its peak).

    1. Re:KaZaA by enneff · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually, the nature of the semi-independant p2p system (consisting of nodes and supernodes) prevents any one user from searching every user on the system. Not only that, but the more leeches you're surrounded by, the less chance you'll have of finding anything interesting.

      Why a network like this should be used for anything other than porn is beyond me - any other media is pretty dubious as far as encode quality goes, and there's nothing rare enough that's accessible to warrant the sacrifice.

  2. Clones by zardie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had two clients connected, so they only got 99,999 connections.

    How many were a floodbot network? On AUSTnet (an IRC network I admin a server on), we periodically get an increase of 400-500 clients if someone smart decides to play funny buggers...

  3. Slashdot does it again. by KeyserDK · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Come on guys get your stories straight. This one was obvius.

    Nice breaking a user record - Especially when EFNET is the 4th largest network. 100k Users was broken like a year ago - by IRCnet.

    Check for yourself

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  4. Re:DALNet anyone? by suss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    DALNet has just had a bad period of DDoS attacks, a couple of servers still haven't rejoined.
    The attacks resolved themselves within about a week, when the IP for irc.dal.net was changed to 127.0.0.1, which turned the attacks on the kiddies themselves (quite hilarious).

    By the way, most of the attacks seem to be coming from universities like Harvard, Emory, etc... You'd think they would have something better to do with their time.

  5. Re:Top irc networks by Yarn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a fellow QuakeNet oper, I agree and also moo.

    Let me proof-read your post next time tho' BF :)

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  6. how about an interview with Jarkko by WH · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about an interview with Jarkko? (he developed irc back in the 80's) I'd love to hear his thoughts on irc, how it has changed, and whether he still finds it useful.

  7. Re:And you know what...Enterprise by saskboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder what percentage of those geeks were looking for the Enterprise season opener?

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  8. DALnet does it with 1/2 the number of servers. by Ballsy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps also of note is the fact that DALnet reaches their 110-140K numbers with less than HALF the number of linked servers (22-26, versus 45-52 on IRCnet, EFnet and QuakeNet. See netsplit.de stats once again). At any rate, congratulations EFnet. It's certainly not a record, but still something to be proud of.

  9. Re:DALNet anyone? by Chroneos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not really much for this IRCsizing anymore, I would really like to know how many of those are legitimate users anyway. I'm actively on DALnet and Undernet, and in ircII I have a constantly updated LUSERS count in my input line, and I've seen both networks exceed 100,000 users. I'm reminded of a line you would see on Undernet in WALLOPS when a new max userload was made, "We would like to thank all the clonebots that made this possible". Besides, it's not the size, it's the quality, right? ;-)

    Too bad we can't measure quality.

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  10. What about bots ? by billcopc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is all nice and good, but what about the zillions of bots on there ? I could open up my own IRC server, spawn flood bots and wait for my box to run out of swap space.. then I'd surely bust the 100k connection cap.

    Still, it's nice to know there are 98000 twelve-year olds littering that IRC network. I haven't irc'ed in years because of that social pollution.

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  11. Re:DALNet anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Someone doing a DDoS could have up to 100 slave computers doing the flooding for them. You only have to send out enough packets to tell your dos net which IP to target next. You could very easily DoS yourself yourself off the net if you made the mistake of sending out 127.0.0.1 as your next target.