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/************************************************************************
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* IRC - Internet Relay Chat, doc/NETWORKING
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* Copyright (C) 1994, Helen Rose <hrose@kei.com>
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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* the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
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* any later version.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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* Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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*/
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Author: Helen Rose
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hrose@kei.com
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Date: 3 March, 1994
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*** Please read this before doing any connecting or writing to ask for
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connections. The information contained in this section is crucial to the
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way IRC is run.
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Note that any old documentation referring to ANet vs EFnet is out of date
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and no longer applies. ANet died so long ago that nobody can remember
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*when* it died.
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To qualify for a link on the irc network, several criteria must be
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met. These criteria include (but are not limited to):
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* A well established local irc userbase. A total of 100-150 local irc
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users. An average of 15-20 irc users over a 24 hour period is also
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acceptable. Note, these user counts are *unique, local* users. So
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one person running fifteen clients doesn't count, and one local
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person plus fifteen offsite people doesn't count. These are not
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arbitrary numbers, it takes at least this many users to equate the
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traffic of adding another server to the irc network.
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* A userbase that uses irc *all the time* (15 users on at once but
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just for a 3 hour period per day is not sufficient).
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* A good, fast, internet link. Absolutely *NO* SLIP lines. 56k lines
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are marginal, they usually cause more trouble than they are worth,
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so we recommend a T1 or better.
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It is well established that having a local irc server does not attract
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local irc users. Often, your best bet is to set up a local client that is
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accessible by everyone at your site, connect it to a nearby offsite
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server, and then see if the usage level goes up. (See appendix for list of
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open-client servers).
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To see how many users you have, on irc do /m x@monitor.us show site.name
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where site.name is your two-part domain name (eg "kei.com" or "bu.edu" or
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"mit.edu"). monitor will tell you how many users you have. Once this
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number gets over 125 or so, put the level it has reached in your note to
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operlist-request@kei.com.
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If you are in the United States and need a link, please mail to
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"operlist-request@kei.com" supplying the information listed below.
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(1) Find out if your system has /etc/ping (sometimes /usr/etc/ping) and
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ping the following hosts:
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server/machine name IP address Geographical Location
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csa.bu.edu 129.197.10.3 Boston, MA
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irc-2.mit.edu 18.180.0.2 Cambridge, MA
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polaris.ctr.columbia.edu 128.59.68.10 New York, NY
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poe.acc.virginia.edu 128.143.83.132 Charlottesville, VA
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irc.iastate.edu 129.186.150.1 Ames, IA
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dewey.cc.utexas.edu 128.83.135.3 Austin, TX
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irc.netsys.com 198.175.9.8 Palo Alto, CA
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w6yx.stanford.edu 36.55.0.50 Stanford, CA
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goren.u.washington.edu 140.142.63.1 Seattle, WA
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These are results of the typical /etc/ping command:
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(note that the machine I am running this from runs SunOS so I have to use
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ping -s ):
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3:59pm hrose@csa : ~ % ping -s polaris.ctr.columbia.edu
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PING polaris.ctr.columbia.edu: 56 data bytes
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=0. time=137. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=1. time=163. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=2. time=110. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=3. time=111. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=4. time=78. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=5. time=82. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=7. time=83. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=8. time=91. ms
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64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=9. time=159. ms
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[...]
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^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^
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Size of packet hostname IP address packet number trip time
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----polaris.ctr.columbia.edu PING Statistics----
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25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0% packet loss
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round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 78/136/327
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When you send pings to operlist-request, please only send the results
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(the above three lines)--we *don't* need each packet's time.
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Guidelines:
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Avg Time Connection is
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0-20ms Optimal
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20-40ms Excellent
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40-70ms Very Good
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70-90ms Average
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90-110ms Acceptable
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110ms-150ms Below Average
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150ms-200ms Bad
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200ms-300ms You're on a very slow link and it is unlikely you will be
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able to support a server successfully.
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** *** WHERE TO FIND HELP!!! ***
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**
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** If you have any other questions about connecting to an irc server, please
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** mail to operlist-request@kei.com. If you have problems mailing there,
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** try mailing hrose@kei.com.
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**
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** *** WHERE TO FIND HELP!!! ***
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Appendix
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========
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Open client servers.
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USA:
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csa.bu.edu
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irc.colorado.edu
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irc.uiuc.edu
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Canada:
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ug.cs.dal.ca
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Europe:
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irc.funet.fi
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cismhp.univ-lyon1.fr
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disuns2.epfl.ch
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irc.nada.kth.se
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sokrates.informatik.uni-kl.de
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bim.itc.univie.ac.at
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Australia:
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jello.qabc.uq.oz.au
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