Instant chats and central servers

Jason Slagle raistlin at tacorp.net
Wed May 9 16:57:18 UTC 2001


No.

This is Dalnet's ircd.  With an average of > 65000 users, encryption to
the CLIENT is not feasible.

Adding support probably wouldn't be too tricky to someone with C
expierence.

Jason

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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

> Can you require access via SSH tunnel?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Slagle [mailto:raistlin at tacorp.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:39 PM
> > To: Christopher A. Woodfield
> > Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Instant chats and central servers
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Newer versions of bahamut will do encrypted links.  Just rc4.
> > 
> > http://bahamut.dal.net
> > 
> > Scalability while compressing to clients is a severly limiting factor
> > unless you only plan on using it locally.
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jason Slagle - CCNP - CCDP
> > Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio
> > - raistlin at tacorp.net - jslagle at toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172
> > /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
> > . . . . . .
> > \ /   ASCII Ribbon Campaign  . If dreams are like movies then memories
> >  X  - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail  .   are films about ghosts..
> > / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail .     - Adam Duritz - Counting Crows
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > This begs a question - does anyone have good experience 
> > with SSL-enabled 
> > > IRC servers? I'm testing UnrealIRCd right now, but I've run 
> > into some 
> > > showstopper bugs when trying to link servers over SSL. Any other 
> > > suggestions?
> > > 
> > > -Chris
> > > 
> > > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:29PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:35:27AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > > > [snip]
> > > > > If folks are using this these services for real-time 
> > communications,
> > > > > should we be trying to improve their reliability?  Or 
> > is this just a
> > > > > "feature" of how presence services work.
> > > > 
> > > > We use IRC for internal communication, and for communication with
> > > > techies of several other Dutch ISPs. Works like a charm, 
> > and the irc
> > > > server is local to us. If it's down, you pick another 
> > irc-server on
> > > > the same network.
> > > > 
> > > > Works for us, works for lot of people.
> > > > 
> > > > Greetz, Peter.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 





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