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		jarek on Oct 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A brief guide to the IRC protocol In a world where IRC networks are frequently DDoS attacked by scriptkiddies (and others), a single point of failure is not worth the simplification.

wmf on Oct 15, 2010 [–]

It seems like if you can DDoS one server, you can DDoS several, but I'm no expert. Also, I thought one of the major motivations for IRC DoSes was to cause netsplits that allow nick stealing; a single sever can't have a netsplit.

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