On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:39:10PM -0500, Nick Bebout wrote: > I think it would be a good idea, especially since we use them so much for > our IRC channels, it'd be nice to contribute a server back to the network. thanks Nick for looking into this again. Indeed, part of the reason I want to help is that so much of Fedora's personal interaction, and Infra critical communication, happens on FreeNode. I don't know that providing an IRC server is the best way to help them out, but it seems like it could help. I agree the DDOSs and spamfloods have been a problem. There's no way to avoid such malicious DDOSs except "not to play" - not running a service at all. But that's kind of self-defeating too. And I don't like having our communication channels be dependent on a third party that we have no real influence with. I hadn't realized OSUOSL already had a node. That definitely would reduce my interest in hosting one there. Given that our hosting is really via others (Red Hat, Telia, ...), maybe it's more appropriate to suggest that _they_ establish a relationship with FreeNode directly and host a node, rather than us doing it. We could help broker relationships if they don't already exist, and point out how FreeNode benefits us, so they see an addition to FreeNode as a continuation of their support of Fedora. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
