The generic round-robin address is . ==History== DALnet was founded in July 1994 by members of the EFnet #startrek channel.
The name Bahamut comes from a silver-white dragon with blue eyes standing for protection, wisdom, justice and hope in Dungeons & Dragons. ==References== ==External links== DALnet website DALnet documentation DALnet history Impact of the DDoS attacks on DALnet Internet Relay Chat networks Internet properties established in 1994
The network was soon renamed from dal's net to DALnet. In contrast to other IRC networks of the time, in 1995 DALnet implemented "services", a system that enforced IRC nickname and channel registrations.
Since then, most new client servers linked are anycast. == Characteristics == The main characteristics of DALnet is its ChanServ services which was invented on DALnet in 1995.
Along with NickServ it gave a solid ground for usability and security on IRC where users got the ability to register their nicknames and their channels. DALnet is also developing and running on its own ircd software called Bahamut which is based on ircd-hybrid and Dreamforge and was first live in the early 2000s.
At that point DALnet was one of the four biggest IRC networks. The network was severely disrupted in late 2002 and early 2003 by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
At that point DALnet was one of the four biggest IRC networks. The network was severely disrupted in late 2002 and early 2003 by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
This raised suspicion as to whether DALnet was being targeted by the RIAA, although this was not true, but a precautionary measure. In 2003, DALnet put up their first anycast servers under the name "The IX Concept", and made irc.dal.net resolve to the anycast IP.
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