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Article #145Re: EFnet server - do any work with mIRC?
From: Jason Haines
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:18
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:18
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In article <3a7d8566$0$16393$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>, Carsten Bauer <ZZZnumloxx@zzznumloxx.comzzz> wrote:
> In Message <slrn97q3lu.fmq.zebee@zipperii.zip.com.au> , "Zebee Johnstone"
> <zebee@zip.com.au> was heard to say:
>
> > In aus.net.irc on Sun, 04 Feb 2001 08:01:23 GMT MonoJoker
> > <deptac@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>Can anyone in Australia connect successfully to EFnet using mIRC? If so
> >>please tell me which server you used because I cannot find one that will
> >>let me connect. I try to connect to the only listed AU server and I get
> >>"Unable to resolve IRC server". All the overseas ones refuse my
> >>connection.
> >>
> >
> > irc.west.gblx.net irc.east.gblx.net irc.ins.net.uk irc.emory.edu
> >
> > NOt all work all the time.
>
> If Telstra didn't turn off their efnet server we wouldn't have this
> problem.
>
> Telstra: making life easier... yeah right!!
They had to shut it down after a massive DoS attack, something like 65
megabytes/sec over a 7 hour period...
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Subject: Re: EFnet server - do any work with mIRC?
From: Jason Haines <matreya@remove_mac.com>
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