Link your IRCd with Pirate Radio!

[Pirate Radio]

Pirate Radio is a Internet Radio Station that always has atleast 100 listeners connected at any given time. We currently have a channel on EF Net for chatting and will be launching our own Network on this Saturday (Dec 18th).

Our network currently runs Ratbox with Anope services. We have two leaf servers in place.

irc.pirate-radio.us - This server shows your real IP without any masking so you can show off your vHosts with a BNC or Eggdrop. We allow friendly bots to connect to this server.

vhost.pirate-radio.us - This server masks your IP as @pirate-radio.us creating a virtual vHost for complete privacy. We do not allow bots to connect to this server.

If you would like to link your IRCd to us:
You will be required to use Ratbox IRCd (http://www.ircd-ratbox.org) or Hybrid IRCd (http://www.ircd-hybrid.org). I will be happy to install it on your server for you, free of charge.
please send an e-mail to IRC-Admin@pirate-radio.us and include If you have root access to the server or if it is a shell account, processor speed, data center location and a traceroute paste to irc.pirate-radio.us and I will get back to you.

See ya on IRC!

[mikron15]

spamming? lol

[Pirate Radio]

Sorry if you see this as spamming... Not sure how though, it is in the IRC forum. If a Mod see's this as spamming, please feel free to remove or maybe consider a section to advertise irc networks housed on FDC servers.

[mikron15]

I guess its ok

[Pirate Radio]

Glad it meets your approvel :rolleyes:

Anyway... back to the thread topic

[mikron15]

I guess its ok
Outta curiousity, how much bw u pushing out.. depending on that value i might be able to offer u a relayer from my box

[Pirate Radio]

Not much yet, we haven't really launched yet so it is mostly just a few friends and OPER's so far. I use to link to a network a few years ago and we pushed around 15gb's per month.

[mikron15]

Oh, currently i host shoutcast for our irc network ( www.bararcade.com ).. It's not 24/7 on, but when ever our DJ are online and free, its up and running.

[Pirate Radio]

Oh, currently i host shoutcast for our irc network ( www.bararcade.com ).. It's not 24/7 on, but when ever our DJ are online and free, its up and running.


Oh, were you offering shoutcast? *becomes instant friend* We can always use that :) I thought you were offering space for an IRCd.

[mikron15]

lol, i was refering abt shoutcast not ircd.

Mebbe we can work something out by Dec 22? ( exams gets over by then)
In the mean time, you will get a rough idea how ur radio station will be doing ( launching this sat i believe?)

[Pirate Radio]

Radio is already launched, just launching our new site and IRC on Sat..

Sure we can always use shoutcast slots :)

Nice IRC you have.. was checking out your site... What IRCd you use?

[mikron15]

Unreal3.2 with Anope

[Pirate Radio]

oh blah.. I hate unreal :P If you ran hybrid or rat, I would link to ya We are running Ratbox with Anope

[MQ-James]

mikron, you run bararcade, I am on that network quite a bit ;) I knew the servers, well some of, where at FDC, but never knew you ran them...

[b4sh]

if you need any hand... feel free to ask.

[Pirate Radio]

if you need any hand... feel free to ask.

Thanks, but we are looking for people to link to us, not help us install it :D

[b4sh]

well.. i didnt mean that..
here everybody have at least one server... maybe i or anybody else here can help you addeding more leafts ;)

[Pirate Radio]

well.. i didnt mean that..
here everybody have at least one server... maybe i or anybody else here can help you addeding more leafts ;)

Sure, if you would like to link into us... shoot me an e-mail to the addy in the first post of the thread. If you need me to install and link up the ircd for you, let me know.

[mikron15]

mikron, you run bararcade, I am on that network quite a bit ;) I knew the servers, well some of, where at FDC, but never knew you ran them...
Or is it?..Small world after all eh ;)

Whats ur nick on BA? and which channels u visit?

oh, btw, Luke was on BA long time ago.. we spent good 1 hr discussing matters

[MQ-James]

my BA nick is my forum nick, I use the same one everywhere.

[mikron15]

[ 11:29:18 ] -NickServ (Services@Services.BarArcade.Com)- Nick MQ_James isn't registered.
[ 11:29:22 ] -NickServ (Services@Services.BarArcade.Com)- Nick MQ-James isn't registered.
[ 11:29:25 ] -NickServ (Services@Services.BarArcade.Com)- Nick MQJames isn't registered.

Either i got it wrong or u haven't registered lol

Drop by #help or #bar and leave me a line...my nick is Aaron|lap

[MQ-James]

I am not registered, but I messaged you

[mikron15]

lol..received msg =)

[Deltaanime]

I don't see why you don't just link on with a half decent network, saving you the headache of having to maintain it and all :o

BTW, ratbox & Anope isn't that great to be honest. You end up missing a lot of mode flags and some of the bots (like hostserv) don't work. If you want complete support of anope, unreal is the best mix.

Not everyone likes unreal, claiming it's crap and such, but i, my self, have -never- had a issue with it. I got a network (all legit too, no warez :P) that at times has over 3000 users online w/o any issues what so ever o_O

~Francisco

[Pirate Radio]

some of the bots (like hostserv) don't work.

Both Hyb and Ratbox have a built in spoof in the conf file. If enabled, it spoofs everyone rather then dealing with setting each user who wants IP protection in hostserv. Personally I hate services, but a lot of people won't chat on any other network then efnet if you don't offer it.

[mikron15]

I don't see why you don't just link on with a half decent network, saving you the headache of having to maintain it and all :o

BTW, ratbox & Anope isn't that great to be honest. You end up missing a lot of mode flags and some of the bots (like hostserv) don't work. If you want complete support of anope, unreal is the best mix.

Not everyone likes unreal, claiming it's crap and such, but i, my self, have -never- had a issue with it. I got a network (all legit too, no warez :P) that at times has over 3000 users online w/o any issues what so ever o_O

~Francisco
We beein using Unreal for past 5-6 years.. It used to be buggy, but now the 3.2.1 version seems very stable comapred ot their previous rlses.

From my experience, ppl use Wircd for holding 4k+ users on single server without any lags and pingouts.

[Deltaanime]

Both Hyb and Ratbox have a built in spoof in the conf file. If enabled, it spoofs everyone rather then dealing with setting each user who wants IP protection in hostserv. Personally I hate services, but a lot of people won't chat on any other network then efnet if you don't offer it.

Not really,

We made a module for anope that let's a user go into a channel and do

!vhost some.vhost.com

it assigns it, the user is then banned from said channel for x amount of time.
We also have it so it detects "bad" vhosts, and informs them that the user must talk with a oper to get said vhost.

~Francisco

[mikron15]

care to share that module? :p

[Deltaanime]

Ya, that's not a problem :)

I'll post it when i get home ;)

~Francisco

[b4sh]

Pirate Radio
did you gived up? no awnser on email that you provided :nuts:

[Manansala]

Currently I am having problems having a faster link to DALnet. I am willing to link an IRCd to anyone who's curently linked to DALnet or is willing to have us linked to DALnet. For the purposes of faster connectivity towards the server.

Kindly have me informed by any means necessary.

[ChronoCross]

Currently I am having problems having a faster link to DALnet. I am willing to link an IRCd to anyone who's curently linked to DALnet or is willing to have us linked to DALnet. For the purposes of faster connectivity towards the server.

Kindly have me informed by any means necessary.

Question: why would you want to link to that network? lol

anyway I believe if you go to their webpage they have a link requirements page as well as an application. you have to apply to link and then if they deem you good enough then they will give you a trial period. if the trial period works then you will become a fulltime link. I think that also covers yourself and 2 others to become services ops. but its' been awhile since I've been on that network somaybe the policy has changed.

[psyxakias]

I don't know if Manansala is talking about the same issue that we have been having as well with DALnet, but I've opened a seperate thread as I'd like to hear some opinions: http://www.fdcservers.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=193

[mikron15]

when i first read it, it seems he wants to link an ircd to Dalnet... but after follwoing psyx thread.. i am confussed

Anyway, if his intention is linking ircd to Dalnet...I doubt FDC will approve that, FDC got freaked out with my 6k network and you think they will approve Dalnet?


And Dalnet is very picky when it comes to linking...if i am not mistaken, i have read it either in our old forum or on WHT, a person wanted to link to DAlnet and when he mentioned FDC was the provider , they rejected his application. ( i am not trying to bash FDC..just telling yah abt a similar incident occured in past)

[psyxakias]

mikron15, why did they freak out with your 6k network? what's wrong with it? :confused:

Also regarding DALnet, yah linking to any big irc networks (DALnet, EFnet, Undernet) is not the easiest thing but my point currently is just to get FDC IPs approved to connect to DALnet IX servers as it's causing a lot of trouble to our clients ;)

[Manansala]

The whole idea of linking to DALnet is "to gain a faster connectivity towards the server" as most of my clients are DALnet people and I've been recieving lots of reports about my server (which is under FDC) having problems connecting to DALnet. That way when I've successfully linked, my customers will not send more and more emails about slow connectivity complaints about the said network.

I hope this answers your question ChronoCross. As I can see your "lol", I hope that you understand that this is a customer relations issue and this is money matters. I sure hope I can laugh with you. Until then, I'll keep my fingers crossed to be able to find other means of solutions about this.

On another note. DALnet has been having abuse lately from an FDC server and I was informed that FDCservers does not reply to DALnet's abuse reports.

As said by the Link Test Admin, quoted "EFnet blocks a host, Undernet kills it, Undernet kills it, DALnet follows." An FDCserver used to abuse one of the three Networks, all of them cooperate with each other.

To make the long story short, I don't exactly want to link. I just need a faster connection towards DALnet and other IRC Networks to follow which lead me to "If I'm linked, I'm fast. All customers happy." This was a desperate action.

[ChronoCross]

I wouldn't worry about your customers connectivtiy. I happen to have tried connecting to dalnet from at least 3 different connections. a Hawaii dsl, a illinois cable and a illinois edu and it's ALWAYS slow connecting. Dalnet after it's big fall over two years ago has never really recovered.

[Deltaanime]

Pirate Radio
did you gived up? no awnser on email that you provided :nuts:

So it seems. In the end he wanted to link to my network, so i asked for him to fill me in on what he has, etc, but have yet to get a PM back.

A shame, i was looking forward to having another internet radio on my network :)

~Francisco