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YolkFolk
03-01-2005, 12:05 PM
AUTO Excessive connections from a single host..
Error : Closing Link: Guest2 by Burstfire.UK.EU.GameSurge.net (G-lined)


Eh? cannot connect by any means.
fix me!
NewBreed
03-01-2005, 12:10 PM
AUTO Excessive connections from a single host..
Error : Closing Link: Guest2 by Burstfire.UK.EU.GameSurge.net (G-lined)


Eh? cannot connect by any means.
fix me!

Use Trillian
YolkFolk
03-01-2005, 12:14 PM
Same errors with trillian.
ferret
03-01-2005, 12:14 PM
Won't help.

That means too many people from your IP (Are you behind a firewall or shared connection) were logged into Gamesurge (The limit is 4, I believe). So they G-Lined you. They IP banned, essentially.
YolkFolk
03-01-2005, 12:16 PM
OMG. why are those people connecting to a game related IRC channel from WORK! Gah.
NewBreed
03-01-2005, 12:43 PM
OMG. why are those people connecting to a game related IRC channel from WORK! Gah.
LOL, same reason you are?
ferret
03-01-2005, 12:52 PM
Consider it your revenge on them, that you were the one to get them all banned :)
YolkFolk
03-01-2005, 12:57 PM
Oh, you mean they got kicked? Oops. I wonder how long we will be banned for.
Satanic_Hamster
03-01-2005, 01:05 PM
Used to ran into that in college. A lot of irc networks would commonly ban the entire college of Virginia Tech due to "too many connections."

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Zantas
03-01-2005, 01:16 PM
it used to be 12 connections, but people abused that somehow
[gh]Spurty
03-01-2005, 02:26 PM
it used to be 12 connections, but people abused that somehow

Bots, ppl used to connect a ton of bots so that they could spam massive amounts of channels with adverts.

This doesn't stop it, just reduces it. The correct way to be safe from this is to force entry to the channel to be policed and only registered accounts can connect

The correct way to get tons of connections from one IP is to create an IRC server and hook that up to the gamesurge network. Only one connectionis perceived.

Also, Gamesurge lowered the connections allowed. I believe gamesnet was higher, but sure it wasn't 12
squeak
03-01-2005, 03:16 PM
That is stupid. The only way Im able to get on IRC behind this schools firewall is connecting to another schools IRC server and then going from there to gamesurge.
[gh]Spurty
03-01-2005, 03:26 PM
squeak, might seem stupid from your perspective, but your aren't the one footing the bill for bandwidth, so your opinion is roughly equal to your outlay


:)

I wish bandwidth was free. If they build a house in the year 2005 and do not put some sort of fiber optics or at the very least, cat5 cable in the house, they are mad
Soxmls35
03-01-2005, 08:05 PM
BTW if its the ban for to many connections it is only a 30 min gline (ban).

So if you get banned just try again in a little bit. Hopefully the other people that caused it to be over the max number of connections wont be so diligent.

One of the times you get on you can also go to #support and ask them to allow more connections on that ip. We did this at a lan party and they did it for us but I don't know if they would do it for a work connection.
ds91
03-01-2005, 08:10 PM
http://gamesurge.net/utils/requesttrust/

can get more connections here.
squeak
03-01-2005, 08:39 PM
how buch bandwith does a chat room take up anyway? Not using it for file sharing etc.
[gh]Spurty
03-01-2005, 10:42 PM
http://gamesurge.net/utils/requesttrust/

can get more connections here.

Utilities

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As for the bandwidth used, depends on the number of users:

NETWORK=GameSurge :are supported by this server
--- There are 76 users and 32822 invisible on 25 servers
--- 68 :operator(s) online
--- 1 :unknown connection(s)
--- 53964 :channels formed
--- I have 1315 clients and 1 servers

if each one uses about 500bytes thats 700Kbytes which is 50% of a T1 for just this node.

Hmm I've been drinking this evening, so that math might be visciously wild