Our servers sometimes got hit with DDOS attacks in the range of 60 Gigabits per second. Drones are a far worse problem than people realize.Ī few years ago, DALnet was seriously DDOS'd - we went from the top network in the world (around 140,000) to next to nothing.

A while back (five years or so), dianora of efnet did some drone hunting, and concluded that around 60% of 'users' on irc were accually drones - hacked end-user computers. Drones is a serious problem on any network. This is done through pattern matching in their registration. Drones are unfortunately the only item that I can speak on authoritively - we reject about 300 drones per second on any given server on our network. On DALnet, we've taken agressive action against warez, child porn, and drones. They find what they are looking for, and move on. The folks that join these channels join looking for something specific, or to offer something. Nobody goes to large channels to chat, its pointless to even try. Who goes to huge channels to chat? Ever tried talking in a channel with 20 active users? Try 800 active users.

I've been an oper on DALnet for six years now, and I currently lead up their coding team, so allow me to shed some light on this - assuming this makes me qualified. This entire post is like flamebait for some of us.

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