RE: Instant chats and central servers

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

Can you require access via SSH tunnel?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Slagle [mailto:raistlin () tacorp net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 6:39 PM
> To: Christopher A. Woodfield
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Instant chats and central servers
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> 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.