AustNet inspired

The AustNet team have recently made the following announcement, this was also coupled by an announcement by the InspireIRCd team in regards to there migration to a new IRCd basecode. both teams openly admitting that the old codebase used on AustNEt was no longer deemed of worth and the new state of the art codebase InspireIRCd was too much to resist

Tuesday the 25th of March, 2008, saw AustNet begin a long-awaited change to new server software, based on InspIRCd. While the migration did take a little longer to complete than expected, both servers and our custom Services software, OPAS, are now updated.

This update should not be seen as a ‘once off’, the primary reason for the change of code was to bring things up to date so new features, suggestions, and fixes can be easily implemented now and in future. We welcome suggestions from everyone on what can be done to further improve the servers and services.

A huge thankyou to the team at InspIRCd, to our staff and admins, and most of all to our users for their patience through this.

Summary of changes:

• Stronger host masking
• Improved flooding, spam and abuse control
• Enhanced user and channel controls (modes)
• IP bans and exempts can also now be in CIDR notation
• SSL client support (selected servers only - see individual server motd)
• Extended limits for nicknames and channels