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Paintball 2: The Game => Paintball 2 Discussion => Topic started by: oddjob on February 02, 2004, 12:41:57 PM

Title: Stupid school takin away my irc
Post by: oddjob on February 02, 2004, 12:41:57 PM

2) We will be blocking all IRC traffic by blocking both port 6667 traffic and placing a discard rule on IRC traffic on our packetshaper.  By doing this we hope to prevent remote control of compromised computers and hopefully slow or stop the occurrence of DDOS attacks.

Title: Re: Stupid school takin away my irc
Post by: jitspoe on February 03, 2004, 11:32:18 AM

Same thing happened at Clemson for a while.  They got it back online, though.  There are a ton of irc zombies around that let script kiddies take control of newbie's computers.

At least your school bothered to inform you about it instead of just cutting it off with no warning.

Title: Re: Stupid school takin away my irc
Post by: Fryth on February 04, 2004, 10:16:20 AM

It's okay, it's given me an opportunity to actually use my linux box (to provide oddjob with a proxy). I don't think it's actually seen this much use ever. (And it's only running shell + irc)