Re: Instant chats and central servers

[Jason Slagle <raistlin () tacorp net>]

Newer versions of bahamut will do encrypted links.  Just rc4.

http://bahamut.dal.net

Scalability while compressing to clients is a severly limiting factor
unless you only plan on using it locally.

Jason

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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:

> This begs a question - does anyone have good experience with SSL-enabled 
> IRC servers? I'm testing UnrealIRCd right now, but I've run into some 
> showstopper bugs when trying to link servers over SSL. Any other 
> suggestions?
>
> -Chris
>
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:29PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:35:27AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > If folks are using this these services for real-time communications,
> > > should we be trying to improve their reliability?  Or is this just a
> > > "feature" of how presence services work.
> >
> > We use IRC for internal communication, and for communication with
> > techies of several other Dutch ISPs. Works like a charm, and the irc
> > server is local to us. If it's down, you pick another irc-server on
> > the same network.
> >
> > Works for us, works for lot of people.
> >
> > Greetz, Peter.