On Thursday 12 August 2004 02:14, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> בWednesday 11 August 2004 20:07, נכתב על ידי Shlomi Fish:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > FreeNode (http://freenode.net/) is an IRC network dedicated to
> > discussions of open source projects and technologies. A request came out
> > by some members of the Israeli open source society to host an IRC server
> > of it on Israel, as soome ISPs won't allow connecting to an IRC server
> > outside Israel. So, the question is: can we host it on
> > eskimo.iglu.org.il?
> >
> > The instructions for setting it up can be found here:
> >
> > http://freenode.net/hosting_ircd.shtml
>
> which sip?
What is a "SIP"?
> who asked?
Well, Dotan Kamber asked it on the latest meeting on #jlc. I also recall a
previous request. I suppose I can post a request-for-comments article on it
on whatsup.org.il or wherever to see if this is a problem that people face.
> irc.kde.org accessible everywhere, for example.
Are you sure? From what I was told some ISPs block access to all non-Israeli
IRC ports. irc.kde.org is not in Israel.
>
> irc is one of the worst things we can bring to eskimo. Even on clean
> networks like freenode it's full of crakcers. We have better things to do
> with the server IMHO.
>
It's not an issue of better things to do. We can have IRC and other things as
well. The crackers are an issue. The question is what do we have to fear:
some extra traffic? cracking attempts? And naturally we may harm the good
guys because of abuse of the bad guys.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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