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Having multiple instances of ircd is the main point of IRC protocol, that is what the R (as in Relay) stands for.
by dfox 16y ago
Having multiple instances of ircd is the main point of IRC protocol, that is what the R (as in Relay) stands for.
- wmf 16y agoIn a world where a single server can support over 100K connections, I wonder if server-to-server support is needed. You could probably simplify an ircd significantly by making it centralized.
- jarek 16y agoIn a world where IRC networks are frequently DDoS attacked by scriptkiddies (and others), a single point of failure is not worth the simplification.
- wmf 16y agoIt seems like if you can DDoS one server, you can DDoS several, but I'm no expert. Also, I thought one of the major motivations for IRC DoSes was to cause netsplits that allow nick stealing; a single sever can't have a netsplit.