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The King is dead. Long live the King |
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Written by Phantomal
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Monday, 22 June 2009 07:33 |
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Dear Users, as announced on Friday, we changed our ircd and services software on saturday. And i have to say that everything worked out much better than i expected. The Network was available all the time and we switched server by server to the new ircd software. At 12:00 we disabled the last old server and the old services and at 12:30 the new services were up und running. We had only one bigger problem, and that was a bug wich makes the services crash when you delete the last user on a channel access list. But with the help of the Anope developer team we fixed this in a very short time. (Thanks again guys). Statserv was back shortly after the services. Most users i talked to said that the new registration isn't a big deal. And we're really happy that it seems that no nickstealing happened. Channelowner were able to register their channels for the new services before they were installed on the production enviroment, wich means that channel stealing has been prevented too. So we could relax and focus on user support. One open issue we will address soon is the maximum connection limit per host. The new servers are able to see globally how many users connected from a single IP Address, and if the limit of 3 is reached its simply not possible to connect a 4. client. On the old server you could connect 3 clients per server wich makes 12 per ip. We limited it to 3 via our services wich set a gline when the exception limit was reached. The advantage of the old system was, that it was really easy to raise an exception for a single ip (to allow bouncers for example.). The new System is a bit more complex to configure but more secure. In the next few days we will add a way for BNC or webchat provider (like Mibbit) to use a higher exception limit. We will announce it on our homepage when this is finished. Greetings, Phantomal |
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Written by Phantomal
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Friday, 19 June 2009 17:11 |
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Dear Users, On Saturday the 20th June 2009 at 12:00 AM CEST, SolidIRC will change the whole IRC Software Package. This means we will get a new IRCd and new Services. This change will unfortunately result in a total loss of all services data. In other words: nicknames and channels are no longer registered. I talked to the Developers of the Services to find a way to convert the data from the old Services Program to the new one. I also tried to convert the data by hand. Nothing worked. So we have to go this way and see how painful it is. Many of you asking why we have to change the software and not use the old one. The explaination is simple. We have used UnrealIRCd for 6 years now. It's a great program, but the project is dying. The coders stopped working on the program, and it's not guaranteed that there will be bugfixes in future. So we've searched for a new ircd for some months and now finally choosed InspIRCd. InspIRCd is a lightweight IRCd wich can handle very much users on one Server. And it contains more Features than UnrealIRCd. You will find new Channel and Usermodes and some new Commands. But the decision to use InspIRCd has revealed a new problem: the old Services Package is not working with the new IRCd. But the advantages of the IRCd are so big that the missing services support is no reason to choose another one. We have decided to use the Anope Services in future and to try to convert the Data. Today we got the confirmation that this conversion isn't possible. So we decided to switch quickly to the new software and give you the best support possible to help you getting back to normal operation. Every channelowner can PM Phantomal to get instructions how to register the Channel for the new installation. (Today im here till 00:00 CEST and tomorow im here at 08:00 AM CEST) Please notice that this service only is for channelowner, normal users can register their nicks tomorow when the system is back online. As I wrote above, the new ircd and the new services are including some new functions and missing a few old ones. This results in a problem for Statserv. So I decided to reset Statserv tomorow. So we will start with clean Services and Stats. I'm really sorry for all the problems this change will cause, and I apologize for every trouble you will have, but I hope you now understand why we have to do this. Greetings, Phantomal |
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Software update scheduled on Sat. 4th April 2009 |
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Written by Phantomal
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Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:53 |
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Dear Users, SolidIRC will undergo a larger maintenance on next Saturday. We will update nearly every IRC related Softwarepackage. This will result in some netsplits and a short downtime of our services. I will combine the SolidIRC software maintenance with a small server maintenance on DS9. Greetings, Phantomal |
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Commander, destroy that Moon! |
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Written by Phantomal
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Friday, 24 April 2009 08:54 |
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Hey Folks, a new Server joined SolidIRC a few Days ago. This Server is sponsored by our well known Services Admin phrozen77 and is called DEATHSTAR. After some days of testing i added the server to our round robin today, so you now have 3 servers wich are reachable with the "irc.solidirc.com" address. Thank you phrozen77 :-) Greetings, Phantomal |
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Written by Phantomal
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Saturday, 07 February 2009 23:29 |
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Hello, i finally added the Webchat to our Website. At this time you will autojoin the "#solidirc" channel, but you can use it for every channel on our Network. We have tested the Webchat to work in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari. You will need a Java (TM) virtual Machine to use it. I plan to improve the functionality in future, so if you have any Problems or Ideas feel free to write me a Mail or post it on our Message Boards. Greetings, Phantomal |
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