Submitted by: Worminc
Source: http://www.nl.ircnet.org/statement.html
IRCNet on Strike From Friday April 7 12:00 until Saturday April 8 20:00 Dutch time, the Dutch IRCNet-servers will be unavailable. With this action, the Dutch IRCNet-operators join the strike that is organised by the German IRCNet-operators. |
Why ?
In the past few months, IRC-servers have increasingly become the victim of so-called DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. These attacks are so serious that not only the IRC-server itself, but the entire network of the ISP or university is badly inflicted. These attacks have already led to the discontinuing of the IRC service by a German provider. Several other providers (including Dutch ones !) are currently considering the same.
