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EFnet IRC Network Changes its Name to ErisNet as "The Great Split" is Undone

posted by martyb on Monday April 02 2018, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the vintage-networking dept.

"ninex" writes:

EFnet announced that the server (eris.Berkeley.EDU) that caused the original IRC network to split back in 1990 ("The Great Split") has rejoined the network. Because of this EFnet (Eris-Free Network) changed its name to "Eris Network", or ErisNet.

eris.Berkeley.EDU is once again serving IRC clients (on ports 6667, 6668 or 6697, 9999 for SSL), thanks to UC Berkeley OCF.

See the news post about this change on http://www.erisnet.org/erisnet_pressrelease.pdf

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @02:23PM (#661469)

    We have a bunch of sites spread across the southeastern USA, most with 2 or 3 dozen employees, one with 200 employees, and a bunch of smaller sites. We keep our normal computers off the internet, using an encrypted VPN to link up the sites.

    IRC is really the main thing. There is also email, video conferencing, VoIP phones, a wiki, and so on... but IRC is really how people keep in touch. At the largest site, IRC is damn useful within the building. The building is too big and convoluted to go find people, and anyway we get input from the other sites if we use IRC.

    Hosted software-as-a-service stuff would not be private to our VPN. It would expose us to security trouble. Lots of IRC alternatives are not cross-platform; we aren't a Windows shop.

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