On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually when I talked to freenode staff, there were
quite interested
in this. They don't have so many servers and wikimedia is well known
project with established technical infrastructure. Even if they needed
root, they could use puppet to set up the system to their needs and
there are many folks around, who would be happy to help them do that.
If there were some technical resources we could offer them, it's
definitely worth of asking. Being a donor of servers means, wikimedia
project would be listed together with our logo on their donor page as
a top donor and that would improve the overall look of our project
which is heavily using their network.
You still have to demonstrate how the
technical community will deal
with a 3 months 25 to 75 Mbps DDoS attack targetted to IRC facilities.
It's the kind of attack waves who made 3 universities, one residential
ISP and one dedicated servers provider (which is by the way one of the
first in Europe, it's OVH) to leave UnderNet 10 years ago.
I'm aware Freenode isn't currently the preferred attack playground but
I'm not comfortable to excessively affect our network strength.
To be an operator on one server is different to have to manage the
issues at an upstream NOC level.
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Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson
http://www.dereckson.be/