Hi Pine,
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:28:54AM -0800, Pine W wrote:
Thanks for the note. Would it be within our mission scope to host a Freenode server? We use Freenode a *lot* for public and private communications. There have been previous discussions about WMF support for upstream services, and WMF has been talking about offering non-monetary support to affiliates, so I think hosting a Freenode server could make sense.
We in fact, already do: that would be dickson.freenode.net.
Unfortunately, the server has been taken offline since the compromise of the Freenode network back in September. We are in touch with the Freenode admins to understand the circumstances of the break-in and to what extent dickson was affected, as well as our post-breakin strategy (forensics, whether reimaging would be enough, etc.). This has taken longer than expected, unforunately.
Suffice to say, the Freenode server is in a different administrative realm and is sandboxed and entirely separate from WMF production; compromises there would not have any effect to our production network.
Faidon