*I* the person who wrote that MOTD have been running the server for 12 years.
I inherited it from someone else in 1989. Note it was a statement about
my attitude toward supporting the IRC community, not that of my predecessor.
12 years under one management, or 13 under two, it's still the oldest.
Actually, I put together the EFNet history page on the-project.org and included that email
from Jarkko. Back when the colorado.edu server was serving 1000 clients that was a big
deal as it represented something like 10% of the total EFnet client load and that's when
we had almost 200 irc servers (before europe branched off). At other times in its history
it was a hub server connecting many of the servers in the western states, and at times
*.au, with up to 13 peer and leaf servers linked. Over time the network situation at CU
changed a bit and we could no longer be an open client server, or a large hub. Later
still, after some particularly heavy attacks the client access had to be restricted to
*.edu, and any ISP with Colorado or a few surrounding Mountain west states that
bothered to contact me. Limiting access helped quite a bit actually, but that's why
most people can't get on now.
Only the ITS management at CU know for sure why the decision to pull the plug on
the server was made. The DoS attacks have actually tapered off almost entirely
in the last couple months due to changes to the server, and to EFNet in general.
Oh well.
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*I* the person who wrote that MOTD have been running the server for 12 years.
I inherited it from someone else in 1989. Note it was a statement about
my attitude toward supporting the IRC community, not that of my predecessor.
12 years under one management, or 13 under two, it's still the oldest.
ian
Actually, I put together the EFNet history page on the-project.org and included that email
from Jarkko. Back when the colorado.edu server was serving 1000 clients that was a big
deal as it represented something like 10% of the total EFnet client load and that's when
we had almost 200 irc servers (before europe branched off). At other times in its history
it was a hub server connecting many of the servers in the western states, and at times
*.au, with up to 13 peer and leaf servers linked. Over time the network situation at CU
changed a bit and we could no longer be an open client server, or a large hub. Later
still, after some particularly heavy attacks the client access had to be restricted to
*.edu, and any ISP with Colorado or a few surrounding Mountain west states that
bothered to contact me. Limiting access helped quite a bit actually, but that's why
most people can't get on now.
Only the ITS management at CU know for sure why the decision to pull the plug on
the server was made. The DoS attacks have actually tapered off almost entirely
in the last couple months due to changes to the server, and to EFNet in general.
Oh well.
ian