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EFnet tests OpenChanfix

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004

EFnet reports it will be testing the OpenChanfix variant of its Chanfix service. It is not a test to see if the opensource variant can replace the current Chanfix however.

Garion, one of the two OpenChanfix coders, said in a reaction to IRC-Junkie: “This is not a replacement, but a test to see whether OCF is really ready for production. Of course we have tested it extensively, but it is extremely difficult to create a good test environment which is a perfect copy of EFnet. That’s why we’ve decided to test it on EFnet itself.”

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Tags: EFNet, IRC, Network Addons
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QuakeNet restricts connections

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Due to extensive abuse and trojan connections from several ISP’s the connections from those ISP’s have been restricted to a maximum of two connections per host.

“Any users attempting to make more than two connections to the network will receive an error message of “Too many connections from your host”, as well as having their connection refused. We apologise to any legitimate users connecting from these hosts, but the situation has become unavoidable”, magpie announced on the QuakeNet website.

ISP affected include Wannadoo in the Netherlands and France, ono.com, bezeqint.net, proxad.net and the well known Spanish rima-tde.net.

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Tags: IRC, Quakenet
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Eu-irc.net’s French admins say au revoir

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

The new Eu-irc.net has already came to a split. The network existed for about 1,5 year and consisted of an average of 1500 users. After a disagreement the French admins decided to split off from the network, and form Eu-irc.org.

“The domain holder (Solaris) was insisting since months on installing UnrealIRCD’s module m_spy to log private dialogs. All French staff (representing 90% of users) were totally opposed to using this module because they are deeply attached to respect of users privacy”, said Elephantman, one of the French splitting admins, in a reaction to IRC-Junkie.

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Tags: EuIRC, Solaris
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Rizon DNS outtage was due to DDoS

Thursday, October 28th, 2004

A few days ago we reported about a DNS outage at Rizon.net. We got in contact with Ksd, a service operator at Rizon, who gave us as explanation; “The error it appears was caused because the owner of the domain filled in random letters and numbers for the contact information address which was flagged.”

After the article was posted we got a number of logs and emails showing a completely different story.

[23:07:13] someone reported our dns and dos’d the shit outta NS and client servers

[23:07:31] gay registar just froze it without emailing or anyth

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Tags: Botnets, DDoS, Rizon
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