mircx -- :(

[Darien]

http://www.mircx.com/irc.html

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Over the past few days, we have been receiving a very large sustained ongoing DDoS attack against all of the servers on our IRC network. While we have made efforts to filter the attack, the person behind it has been very persistent and we have been forced to block all traffic to the servers at times to filter it. Unfortunately, the end result has been an unusable network and the loss of our secondary server.

Together with our main server provider, we have decided to close down what's left of the IRC network. We don't know for how long the attack will continue, and it has, at times, affected other servers (and paying customers) on the networks where the IRC servers are hosted. Ultimately, we decided that it's no longer worth the expense, resources, and trouble to deal with any more attacks and outages over a free service. While we understand how many of you have come to depend on the IRC network, we hope you can understand our position and do apologize for the short notice and inconvenience this causes. We would have liked to continue the IRC network for a long time to come, but with the current state of DDoS attacks on the Internet and the problem only increasing, this no longer seems feasible.

We would like to thank the providers who hosted our servers over the past few years for their support, and all of you who made the IRC network your home. At this time, we know who is responsible for the attacks and law enforcement is investigating. Should you have any information which might assist law enforcement, please send it to us and we will pass it along.

If you are looking for people who were on the IRC network, or want to announce your channel's relocation, SearchIRC has set up a forum here for that purpose.

No mircx --> lots of homeless groups

 

[n0cmonkey]

efnet
dalnet
undernet
ircnet(?)

 

[rival]

wh00pdy doo

 

[TommyVercetti]

No IRC -> Getting some work done, getting out of the house, getting a life, being a productive member of the society.

 

[yllus]

Come hang out in #neochat on Undernet, it's where a bunch of ATOT people come. See sig for a web applet.

 

[dc]

shazbot, wonder where the chans i hangout in are gonna move to. =/

 

[Tetsuo]

Sucks...

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Darien
http://www.mircx.com/irc.html

Sunday, February 22, 2004

Over the past few days, we have been receiving a very large sustained ongoing DDoS attack against all of the servers on our IRC network. While we have made efforts to filter the attack, the person behind it has been very persistent and we have been forced to block all traffic to the servers at times to filter it. Unfortunately, the end result has been an unusable network and the loss of our secondary server.

Together with our main server provider, we have decided to close down what's left of the IRC network. We don't know for how long the attack will continue, and it has, at times, affected other servers (and paying customers) on the networks where the IRC servers are hosted. Ultimately, we decided that it's no longer worth the expense, resources, and trouble to deal with any more attacks and outages over a free service. While we understand how many of you have come to depend on the IRC network, we hope you can understand our position and do apologize for the short notice and inconvenience this causes. We would have liked to continue the IRC network for a long time to come, but with the current state of DDoS attacks on the Internet and the problem only increasing, this no longer seems feasible.

We would like to thank the providers who hosted our servers over the past few years for their support, and all of you who made the IRC network your home. At this time, we know who is responsible for the attacks and law enforcement is investigating. Should you have any information which might assist law enforcement, please send it to us and we will pass it along.

If you are looking for people who were on the IRC network, or want to announce your channel's relocation, SearchIRC has set up a forum here for that purpose.

No mircx --> lots of homeless groups

I think a lot of people will fail to see this relates to all the wonderful fan sub groups out there..

 

[So]

<not that farmiliar with IRC>
I only use IRC periodically and I haven't been on in a long time.

Is this just a group of IRC servers, or some sort of overreaching organization?

This doesn't mean the death of irc altogether, does it?

</not that farmiliar with IRC>

 

[TwiceOver]

Prolly get ragged on, but last time I used IRC (about 3 years ago) I ended up with an IRC virus... Just for entering the channel! I havn't used it since. So yeah.,?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: So
<not that farmiliar with IRC>
I only use IRC periodically and I haven't been on in a long time.

Is this just a group of IRC servers, or some sort of overreaching organization?

One lame net.

This doesn't mean the death of irc altogether, does it?

There are plenty of other nets out there.

 

[DaWhim]

come to resum.net

 

[yukichigai]

I'd almost rather an IRC channel went out totally instead of what DAL did after their bouts of DDoS attacks. "IRC is for chat." Yeah, right.

Of course they were hardly unjustified. Apparantly the DDoS attacks started as some sort of cross-network inter-channel rivalry. Warez this versus HaXX0rs that. Who cares.

 

[nodoubts2k]

isnt this what happened to dal.net as well?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: nodoubts2k
isnt this what happened to dal.net as well?

Pretty much every network gets thier turn at 10gB/s DDoSes.

 

[Azraele]

People that attack like that suck.

 

[Aharami]

oh well

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
No IRC -> Getting some work done, getting out of the house, getting a life, being a productive member of the society.

Posting smartass comments on the forums is your contribution to Society?


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