Gavin Smith wrote: > > [...] > I knew you'd pick up on this ;) I was only winding you up Mac Buster ;)
And you did it very well. > Basically, a few of the big IRC networks have been hit with Denial of > Service attacks on the servers and the ISPs hosting those servers. > Therefore, a lot of the servers have been dying because the ISPs no longer > want to be attacked and because it's cost them a fortune. Therefore IRC (or > at least Undernet) is shit slow at times and hard to get on. I know. I use it sometimes. Same was five years ago when I started use it. > Last I heard, the people doing the attacks apparently came from Russia but > I'm not sure that was confirmed. I bet they came "THROUGH" Russian hosts, instead of "FROM" Russia. Something like that happened around one year ago. One IRC Network from Sweden told that they are closing their service because they are tired of Russian Amiga owners attacks. Well, that IRCN did not knew that Russian Amiga Community is very strong and simply can't do this. We investigated this case and found some facts that attacks were made from another country. Then we found phone and address of that person who did it. He thought noone may find him. It wasn't as difficult as people think. > No offence intended, honest :) Ghm... Be careful. > Gavin
