Re: IRC

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Michael Beattie wrote about "Re: IRC"
| On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
| 
| > -> > I just get my first irc client for linux... Is there something like `The
| > -> > debian irc channel' somewhere??
| > -> irc.debian.org  -- #debian
| > 
| > It is imho very stupid idea to create new IRC server/net just because of
| > this one issue.
| > 
| 
| I think it is just another DNS entry to another server.. I dont know... It
| is not only debian. Anyone else please like to comment?
| 

A dnslookup gives,

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    irc.openprojects.net
Addresses:  204.140.166.40, 199.184.169.71, 207.203.100.150, 199.183.24.237
          204.209.161.5, 208.136.203.8, 195.198.116.4, 164.11.100.9, 203.24.100.18
          138.123.128.101, 206.187.91.10, 132.248.29.200, 130.89.230.134, 205.218.189.69
          209.0.31.129, 203.111.84.6, 192.188.244.13, 199.199.220.2, 207.16.36.11
          132.229.132.182
Aliases:  irc.debian.org

Yikes! The server has 20 IP's!

A traceroute to irc.debian.org ends at varley.openprojects.net (207.16.36.11).


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Brian 
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