MIRCX Dead

[Ratshirt]

Official release here http://www.mircx.com/irc.html ('http://www.mircx.com/irc.html')

Sunday, February 22, 2004
Over the past few days, we have been receiving a very large sustained ongoing DDoS attack against all of the servers on our IRC network. While we have made efforts to filter the attack, the person behind it has been very persistent and we have been forced to block all traffic to the servers at times to filter it. Unfortunately, the end result has been an unusable network and the loss of our secondary server.

Together with our main server provider, we have decided to close down what's left of the IRC network. We don't know for how long the attack will continue, and it has, at times, affected other servers (and paying customers) on the networks where the IRC servers are hosted. Ultimately, we decided that it's no longer worth the expense, resources, and trouble to deal with any more attacks and outages over a free service. While we understand how many of you have come to depend on the IRC network, we hope you can understand our position and do apologize for the short notice and inconvenience this causes. We would have liked to continue the IRC network for a long time to come, but with the current state of DDoS attacks on the Internet and the problem only increasing, this no longer seems feasible.

We would like to thank the providers who hosted our servers over the past few years for their support, and all of you who made the IRC network your home. At this time, we know who is responsible for the attacks and law enforcement is investigating. Should you have any information which might assist law enforcement, please send it to us and we will pass it along.

Sad Day for all, Wankers win.

[Munsu]

Damn... i dint see you making a thread about this and i just posted the same link in the other thread...

[Ratshirt]

s'ok just link to it no problems sure the mods will flame or not. they will have enough problems haveing to scratch up a # someplace. Meh Aniverse looking pretty good about now.

[Legendary Nin]

So who is responsible?

[JTD121]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Legendary Nin @ Feb 22 2004, 06:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> So who is responsible? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I would also like to know this. So then we can find them and beat the living hell out of them&#33;

But Aniverse seems to be the new home to several fansub groups and release groups...For now. AGO (Anime-Game-Osts) seems to have a temp channel there (although it was really a backup channel).

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[joker-kun]

what so irc is gone for good?

[PrinceMarth]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (joker-kun @ Feb 22 2004, 07:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> what so irc is gone for good? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
MIRC-X is gone for good. We need to find a new server.

[JTD121]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (joker-kun @ Feb 22 2004, 07:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> what so irc is gone for good? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
No, just one of the many networks on IRC.

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[joker-kun]

oh, okay, well im guessing huge rooms like; anbudom,animeone(already have), and KF will prolly just switch servers, and of course the most important -----&#62;gotwoot.


for a sec I thought it was all gone.

[Munsu]

I dont think aniverse could handle animeone, that server is not has big as mircx, so i doubt that they&#39;ll leave their channel their... as well as some of the others...

[JTD121]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Mondongo @ Feb 22 2004, 07:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I dont think aniverse could handle animeone, that server is not has big as mircx, so i doubt that they&#39;ll leave their channel their... as well as some of the others... </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Well, supposedly they upgraded the servers a while back, and it hasn&#39;t crashed since. So it might be able to handle is. I&#39;m on #animeone right now and it seems fine.

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[PSJ]

is this a big deal? im not into irc stuff at all... could someone explain so i understand?

[Munsu]

Yeah but wait until they have 4,000 users and a Naruto episode is released... i really don&#39;t know I&#39;m probably talking BS,,,

But in other news... I was just disconected from aniverse and can&#39;t reconnect... I hope they are not being targeted

anyone knows all the ports that aniverse listens to?

[PrinceMarth]

Aniverse was probably getting traffic so high that it crashed. I dread a Friday afternoon on Aniverse, it&#39;ll die every 15 seconds.

A new huge server is necessary. Aniverse isn&#39;t really up to it.

[JTD121]

Perhaps I was wrong about Animverse being able to host #animeone. Last I checked, before I got kicked off, it was at almost 1,000 users in the channel.

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[Munsu]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Pervert-Sennin Jiraiya @ Feb 22 2004, 07:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> is this a big deal? im not into irc stuff at all... could someone explain so i understand? </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
well let&#39;s see... for none irc users... the indirect effect will be delayed distro on new releases...

[Ratshirt]

Aniverse used to be the only real game in town besides ETG ( which really didn&#39;t count) and except for the lame a&#036;&#036; AOL&#39;rs who were pretty much Klined anyways. Aniverse easily handled the load until the script kiddies went to town on it back in what wazzit 2002 ? thats when MIRCX became so popular anyways.

AS I recall AJ started this off by migrating over to MIRCX (more like got booted off aniverse) about the time aniverse became unstable. saying that the Gundam Seed releases would be Mircx releses ONLY... got the leeches over there. next thing you know the rest is history.

[joker-kun]

I just want gotwoot back....maybe they should move to ETG, thats a good server.

[Hatake Kakashi]

I guess we are going to have to check each Fanscanners/Fansubbers website to find out what networks they are going to move to then...

[Munsu]

I think they are going to try out Rizon (at least animeone, others seem to be following)

It looks like they still are trying to figure out where to move but the real ops of animeone are currently at rizon if not mistaken

read this if you are bored:

http://www.rpi.edu/~smiths4/krashed.txt ('http://www.rpi.edu/~smiths4/krashed.txt')

[Hatake Kakashi]

there seems to be a split between Rizon

irc.rizon.net

and cruel fate

irc.cruelfate.net

Kaizoku Fansubs is on rizon

Snoopy Cool and Manga Readers are on Cruel Fate

[joker-kun]

I heard anbudom, animeone and keep are all on rizon.

[Kn1ves]

got this in my email today about Aniverse


</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Forgive my sending this mail out to all the forum members. I&#39;ve not done this
before, and I hope I never have to do it again.

It looks like Aniverse has bit the dust for a while, thanks to a DDoS attack.

Whilst the network is down, we are running a backup chan on irc.irchighway.net
ports 6660-6669.

We hope to see you there.

--
Spadge
A2000A

</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

[Xollence]

Damn aniverse too? Freaking nerds making it a pain for us to get anime&#33; Who the hell is doing all this anyway?

[Tenshi28]

wow thats a really big shocker, and just yesterday

[MiliardoMerquise]

Heyo, first off .:15·25·59:. * Connecting to irc.xplicit-prodigy.net (9000)
.:15·26·00:. * Unable to connect to server (Connection refused)
that server you guys mentioned in the news wont let anyone connect, and i also had a decently big channel on mircx with about 50 regulars, if anyone knows where most of the population is migrating, let me know, i want my ppl back ;_; ~thx

[Munsu]

Here&#39;s a link that might help some of you guys out find where some of the channels are:

http://www.baka-updates.com/Temp_Channel.txt ('http://www.baka-updates.com/Temp_Channel.txt')

[joker-kun]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (MiliardoMerquise @ Feb 23 2004, 03:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Heyo, first off .:15·25·59:. * Connecting to irc.xplicit-prodigy.net (9000)
.:15·26·00:. * Unable to connect to server (Connection refused)
that server you guys mentioned in the news wont let anyone connect, and i also had a decently big channel on mircx with about 50 regulars, if anyone knows where most of the population is migrating, let me know, i want my ppl back ;_; ~thx </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I think some channels with 800+ ppl prolly had a bigger upset.

[Everon]

whats this irc.xplicit-prodigy.net that gotwoots talking about? I&#39;m not really a mircx expert so I might need some pointers about how to get there.

[itachi_]

I&#39;d say 90 % of the &#39;good&#39; channels have moved to Rizon...

[itachi_]

The big fansubber groups are at rizon

/server irc.rizon.net

Damn those bastards that did this to mirc-x.

<span style='color:purple'>I understand your anger, but watch how you say you&#39;ll get revenge.. http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/sleep.gif
JessiA
Gotwoot Administrator</span>

[Munsu]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Everon @ Feb 23 2004, 06:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> whats this irc.xplicit-prodigy.net that gotwoots talking about? I&#39;m not really a mircx expert so I might need some pointers about how to get there. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
It&#39;s a server... go to file and open a new window then type in that window


/server irc.xplicit-prodigy.net

[sangai]

damn that sucks

i hope this guy gets whats comin to him (who ever did this)

[rEkKaShInObI]

get ur trojan virus&#39;s ready, were going after him&#33;

[Gryphon]

so where is the #Gotwoot channel gonna go

[Munsu]

go to the efnet server and the asshole is at #ryan1918.com


he&#39;s an op there


As for gotwoot... i&#39;m at rizon and Wilik is there... dont know if there is another channel around in another server... there probably is

[PrinceMarth]

Most anime channels moved to Rizon, most manga channels moved to Cruelfate.