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-
- Author: Helen Rose
- hrose@kei.com
- Date: 3 March, 1994
-
- *** Please read this before doing any connecting or writing to ask for
- connections. The information contained in this section is crucial to the
- way IRC is run.
-
- Note that any old documentation referring to ANet vs EFnet is out of date
- and no longer applies. ANet died so long ago that nobody can remember
- *when* it died.
-
-
- To qualify for a link on the irc network, several criteria must be
- met. These criteria include (but are not limited to):
-
- * A well established local irc userbase. A total of 100-150 local irc
- users. An average of 15-20 irc users over a 24 hour period is also
- acceptable. Note, these user counts are *unique, local* users. So
- one person running fifteen clients doesn't count, and one local
- person plus fifteen offsite people doesn't count. These are not
- arbitrary numbers, it takes at least this many users to equate the
- traffic of adding another server to the irc network.
-
- * A userbase that uses irc *all the time* (15 users on at once but
- just for a 3 hour period per day is not sufficient).
-
- * A good, fast, internet link. Absolutely *NO* SLIP lines. 56k lines
- are marginal, they usually cause more trouble than they are worth,
- so we recommend a T1 or better.
-
- It is well established that having a local irc server does not attract
- local irc users. Often, your best bet is to set up a local client that is
- accessible by everyone at your site, connect it to a nearby offsite
- server, and then see if the usage level goes up. (See appendix for list of
- open-client servers).
-
- To see how many users you have, on irc do /m x@monitor.us show site.name
- where site.name is your two-part domain name (eg "kei.com" or "bu.edu" or
- "mit.edu"). monitor will tell you how many users you have. Once this
- number gets over 125 or so, put the level it has reached in your note to
- operlist-request@kei.com.
-
- If you are in the United States and need a link, please mail to
- "operlist-request@kei.com" supplying the information listed below.
- If that doesn't get you a link, talk to other operators on IRC.
- Eventually you will find one who will help you get a link (if you're
- female, you've got even better chances - hint hint).
-
- (1) Find out if your system has /etc/ping (sometimes /usr/etc/ping) and
- ping the following hosts:
-
- server/machine name IP address Geographical Location
- cs-pub.bu.edu 129.197.10.3 Boston, MA
- irc-2.mit.edu 18.180.0.2 Cambridge, MA
- polaris.ctr.columbia.edu 128.59.68.10 New York, NY
- poe.acc.virginia.edu 128.143.83.132 Charlottesville, VA
- irc.iastate.edu 129.186.150.1 Ames, IA
- dewey.cc.utexas.edu 128.83.135.3 Austin, TX
- w6yx.stanford.edu 36.55.0.50 Stanford, CA
- alfred1.u.washington.edu 140.142.63.1 Seattle, WA
-
- These are results of the typical /etc/ping command:
-
- (note that the machine I am running this from runs SunOS so I have to use
- ping -s ):
-
- 3:59pm hrose@csa : ~ % ping -s polaris.ctr.columbia.edu
- PING polaris.ctr.columbia.edu: 56 data bytes
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=0. time=137. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=1. time=163. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=2. time=110. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=3. time=111. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=4. time=78. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=5. time=82. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=7. time=83. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=8. time=91. ms
- 64 bytes from polaris.ctr.columbia.edu (128.59.68.10): icmp_seq=9. time=159. ms
- [...]
- ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^
- Size of packet hostname IP address packet number trip time
-
-
- ----polaris.ctr.columbia.edu PING Statistics----
- 25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0% packet loss
- round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 78/136/327
-
-
- When you send pings to operlist-request, please only send the results
- (the above three lines)--we *don't* need each packet's time.
-
-
- Guidelines:
-
- Avg Time Connection is
- ======== =============
- 0-20ms Optimal
- 20-40ms Excellent
- 40-70ms Very Good
- 70-90ms Average
- 90-110ms Acceptable
- 110ms-150ms Below Average
- 150ms-200ms Bad
- 200ms-300ms You're on a very slow link and it is unlikely you will be
- able to support a server successfully.
-
-
- ** *** WHERE TO FIND HELP!!! ***
- **
- ** If you have any other questions about connecting to an irc server, please
- ** mail to operlist-request@kei.com. If you have problems mailing there,
- ** try mailing hrose@kei.com.
- **
- ** *** WHERE TO FIND HELP!!! ***
-
- Appendix
- ========
-
- Open client servers.
-
- USA:
- cs-pub.bu.edu
- irc.colorado.edu
- irc-2.mit.edu
-
- Canada:
- ug.cs.dal.ca
-
- Europe:
- irc.funet.fi
- cismhp.univ-lyon1.fr
- disuns2.epfl.ch
- irc.nada.kth.se
- sokrates.informatik.uni-kl.de
- bim.itc.univie.ac.at
-
- Australia:
- jello.qabc.uq.oz.au
-
-