“I’d just like to let you know that www.mirc.net is back online again,” mIRC.net admin Magic told me yesterday in a privmsg.
Magic was finally able to retrieve the files from the original server. “We have made backups of the entire script/file archive, all web files and the entire mysql database, compressed the site+file archive was over 750Mb and the database was 26Mb,” Magic said to IRC-Junkie.
The website of the Undernet IRC network is back online. We asked one of the members of the webteam, Magic, why it took so long to get it back online: “It’s been down for about 2 month now, the reason it went down has to do with that the person who hosted it for over 4 years changed job and that seems to have effected the Internet connection he had from the ISP he worked for.”
Magic is also the webmaster of mIRC.net, which was hosted on the same machine, and is offline since then as well. We reported about that on the 10th of October, and in a comment Magic explained that the Undernet website was hosted on the same machine.
“So that everyone is aware, BitchX.[com] is not a trusted domain and nothing coming from that site should be trusted”, Sin announced on BitchX’s official website.
In a reaction to IRC-Junkie, Sin explains the several domains including BitchX.com were all owned by singular individuals to prevent third parties to abuse the domain. Sin explained: “The former owner of the .com became disenchanted with the project and certain persons such as myself taking the initiative to revive the project, website, and other aspects because he was not in control over the core web content nor the FTP sites.”
Undernet added a new command to its channel service. The command sets wether you allow other people to add you to new channels.
Requested by users and opers, it is especially usefull for those people who keep finding themself added in channels without their knowledge.
To set, use /msg x set noadduser ON, and to unset use /msg x set noadduser OFF
The Australian government took an interesting path to battle the increasing problem of zombies on the Internet. Zombie is the term for PC’s which have been infected with software and then being abused by malicious people using them for spam, but also for example for DDoS attacks.
It is Senator Helen Coonan, minister for communications, information technology and the arts that came up with the plan for a 3 month trial. A total of 5 ISP’s have been selected for the trial.
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