X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/irc/freenode/web-7.0.git/blobdiff_plain/eeb00e73496224cb251d7c2a7b85b3382ee43517..f9ecc95c529a1c0cb0bec08b86dc8cd92e7a28db:/content/news/2005-12-17-good-afternoon-everyone.md diff --git a/content/news/2005-12-17-good-afternoon-everyone.md b/content/news/2005-12-17-good-afternoon-everyone.md index f91cf98f0..76237810e 100644 --- a/content/news/2005-12-17-good-afternoon-everyone.md +++ b/content/news/2005-12-17-good-afternoon-everyone.md @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ +--- author: christel date: 2005-12-17 12:18:55+00:00 slug: good-afternoon-everyone title: [Announcement] Temporary DNS Change +imported: yes --- For the last 18 hours, freenode experienced a large-scale nuisancebot infestation. We temporarily removed the [irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net) rotation and replaced it with [chat.freenode.net](irc://chat.freenode.net/), in order to try to stem the tide of spambots hitting the network. In the process of doing so, we discovered a new methodology for analyzing the spambot net and produced a patched server version to mitigate the effects of the infestation. As of a few minutes ago, all freenode servers have been upgraded to this new code.