Before: chicago.il* links with Pierre and Cym Feb 94 halifax.nb.* links with Whizzard before Jan 94 paderborn.de.* links with bonsai around Oct 93 pasadena* links with nikita around Feb 93 montreal* links around Dec 93 or Jan 94 milwaukee* links before Jan 94 pueblo* links before Jan 94 murc before June 94, telnet.us before June 94 telnet.uk around Aug 95, uworld before Jan 94 delft2.nl* links same site as delft* before Oct 94 delft* links with Run as admin before Jan 94 lausanne.ch.* links with McFly before Jan 94 vienna* links admin Fingwe before Jan 94 albany* links admin Chucki before Jan 94 caen* links with admin _dl before Jan 94 stgeorge* links with admin Karll before Jan 94 (sci.dixie.edu) manhattan* links with admin tar before Jan 94 wash-2* links after Nov 95 but before Jan 97 brisbane* links before March 94 wollongong links before Feb 94 norman* links before Jan 94 fayetteville* links before Jan 94 with Twilight1 paris* links before Jan 94 with dl --- 1994: ljubljana.si.* links in January with President as admin. oslo.no.* links in January with Macro as admin. fayetteville.ar.* delinks in January due to lack of resources. gothenburg.se.* links in February with Snarf as admin. paris.fr.* delinks in February due to lack of place to host it. halifax.nb.* delinks in February due to the host not wanting it. sanjose.ca.* links in February with Ensor as admin. krakow.pl.* links in March with Kaz as admin. boston.ma.* links around April with Meatloaf as admin. santiago.cl.* links around April with Arcade as admin. tampa.fl.* links around April with Dylan as admin. austin.tx.* links in June with SunSword as admin. pueblo.mx.* delinks in July due to poor network performance. rochester.mi.* links in August with Ausum as admin. It is hosted at the then well-known oak.oakland.edu server. krakow.pl.* delinks due to poor performance and low user base. washington.dc.* links in October with Matt Lyle as admin. It was hosted by AOL from the beginning. oxford.uk.* links in November with LM as admin. pasadena.ca.* delinks in November due to the host not wanting it anymore. --- 1995: paderborn.de.* delinks in January due to the admin moving. Uworld2 links off rochester* in February just to have a backup service. tampa.fl.* delinks in February due to the hosting university not wanting it anymore. auckland.nz.* links in February with nil as admin. bloomington.in.* links in February with Jon2 as admin. boston.ma.* delinks in February due to poor network performance. Super posts the Channel Service Guidelines proposal in February for a new committee to take care of the new channel service. X (originally named "lagbolt") is online by the end of February with Cservice in place. It was connected via channels* off of montreal*. Undernet hits 1000 users for the first time in February. charlottesville.va.* links around February with Helix as admin. pittsburgh.pa.* links in March with Peterb as admin. stgeorge.ut.* delinks in March due to lack of place to host it. charlottesville.va.* delinks around March albany* delinks March because the admin's account expired. Uworld2 off rochester* delinks in April because it was unstable. It comes back after it is upgraded to the same version as Uworld in June. amsterdam.nl.* links around April or May with Undertow as admin. bloomington.in.* delinks in July due to low user count. milwaukee.wi.* delinks in June due to lack of place to host it. delft.nl.* delinks in June due to the admin losing the account. washington-1.dc.* links around June with limited clients. W (which was almost named "Q") comes online from rochester* in July. It was connected via channels2*. lausanne.ch.* delinks in July due to bandwidth restraints. phoenix.az.* links in July with _Zool as admin. vienna.at.* delinks in October due to technical problems. gothenburg.se.* delinks in November due to time and resource constraints. ann-arbor.mi.* links in November with Hoopycat as admin. oxford.uk.* delinks in November due to instability and the admin moving. diemen.nl.* links around November. halifax.nb.* links very briefly in December but shortly thereafter delinks because it used too many resources. The admin was Whizzard, the same as the earlier halifax* server. delft2.nl.* delinks after Aug 95 but before Dec 96 --- 1996: sandiego.ca.* links in January with Helix as admin. okc.ok.* links in January with Wildthang as admin. murc2.* delinks in January. rochester.mi.* delinks in January. sydney.au.* links in January. espoo.fi.* links in February. blacksburg.va.* links in February. hamilton.on.* links in February. davis-r.ca.* delinks in February. vancouver.bc.* links with admin FootPrint in February. lowell.ma.* links with admin Skot in February. brisbane.au.* and wollongong.au.* delink in March due to the bandwidth being unmanageable. They form a separate network in Australia, oz.org. london.uk.* links in March with admin brummie. stlouis.mo.* links in March with admin BigTim. washington-r.dc.* links in March at the same site as wash*. joplin.mo.* links with admin jsb in March. davis.ca.* delinks in May when it moves to oz.org. In May, Starfox starts on a new routing plan for r-com. Super proposes reorganizing r-com, admins, and opers in May. It doesn't go anywhere. joplin.mo.* is renamed to springfield.mo.* in May. chicago-r.il.* links in June with admin Pierre. oslo.no.* delinks in June. hamilton.on.* delinks in June. vancouver-r.bc.* links in June as a place to hub channels*. norman.ok.* is renamed norman-r.ok.* in June and becomes a dedicated hub. dallas.tx.* links in June with khagen as admin. lulea.se.* links in June. atlanta.ga.* links in June. luxembourg.lu.* links in June. toronto.on.* links in June with DeeCee as admin. chicago.il.* is renamed chicago-1.il.* in June, when chicago.il.* links with Edge as admin. monticello.ar.* links in July and quickly delinks a month or so later. There are many problems with the administrative team. santiago.cl.* delinks in September. regensburg.de.* links in September with admin wuschel. oslo.no.* links in June with ene as admin. This is not the same server that delinked a few months ago. saltlake.ut.* links in September with Derrick as admin. luxembourg.lu.* delinks in September. los-angeles.ca.* links in November with Shadow as admin. dublin.ie.* links in November with Morcar as admin. dallas-r.tx.* links in November at the same site as dallas*. rockhill.sc.* links in November with mrcactus as admin. atlanta.ga.* delinks in November. espoo.fi.* delinks in December. ljubljana.si.* delinks in December. portland.me.* links in December with Esoteric as admin. blacksburg.va.* delinks in December. baltimore.md.* links in December with Cyberdude as admin. ---- 1997: des-moines.ia.* links in January with Kevin Houle as admin. Host authorization with different levels of access in Uworld. Legal Issues FAQ by Mmmm on why Undernet doesn't do more about porn and warez. The infamous _Metal_ attacks in January 1997 caused Romania to get blackholed. manhattan.ks.* delinks in January due to poor network position. Reorganization of the undernet-admins list and voting procedures, started by Shadow (los-angeles* admin). He and buff wrote up most of the procedures we still have today. Previously, there were many opers and coders on the admins list, and CFVs were handled very haphazardly, without organization. Some "old-timers" are kept as honorary admins: Kev, Run, Mmmm, and President, in addition to Wildthang and SeKs, who had servers at the time. vancouver-r.bc.* delinks in January and vancouver.bc.* becomes both a client server and hub. goettingen.de.* links in February with Sparc as admin. lulea.se.* becomes a hub server in February and is renamed lulea-r.se.*. portland.me.* delinks in February when r-com doesn't permlink it. dublin.ie.* delinks in February when r-com doesn't permlink it. pittsburgh.pa.* delinks in March because problems with the admin and some communication problems with the hosting company. newbrunswick.nj.* links in April with mregit and play as admins. almere.nl.* links with admin Flynn in June. lasvegas.nv.* links in April with Angel111 as admin. RFD-0001, the first RFD under the new organization, is on global K:lining *.uu.net. CFV-0004, the first CFV, is to dissolve CService. It fails. NA r-com does a server link review, to recommend bad servers for delink, and assess the hub situation. Much politicking ensues. In the end, almost all the members of r-com resign, Tealie resigns as secretary in May, and eti is elected. She immediately resigns for health reasons, and Leland, who was second in the election, takes her place. The election was in June and Leland became secretary in early July. chicago-1.il.*, washington-2.dc.*, and des-moines.ia.* delink in April because of the link review. des-moines* is allowed to relink after an appeal. sanjose.ca.* delinks in May because of the cost of providing resources. austin.tx.* delinks in May. ircu 2.10 released on July 14, 1997, with beta-testing on it the previous 6 months. norman-r.ok.* delinks in July when the admin moves. baltimore-r.md.* (CyberDude), los-angeles-r.ca.* (drk), stlouis-r.mo.* (BigTim), and charlotte-r.nc.* (mrcactus) all link in July as part of a new routing plan. stlouis-r* delinks in August because it is not needed. baycity.mi.* links in August with comstud as admin. des-moines.ia.* delinks in August because the ISP doesn't want to host it anymore. amsterdam.nl.* delinks in August because the admin wants to move on. drk (admin of los-angeles* after Shadow) links protocol, a P10 service bot, which caused a lot of controversy with its "hidden" abilities to gline, jupe, and masquerade as Uworld. Its primary purpose was to find P10 bugs. It got delinked in August 1998 after someone found it in a hacking channel, opped, with the kiddies bragging about it. arlington.va.* links in September with shameer as admin. It was originally to be named springfield.va.* but that would have been confusing since there was already springfield.mo.* at that time. dallas-test.tx.* links in September with Ci_Ci and Try as admins. By November, khagen (admin of previous dallas.tx.*) is tired of running a client server so he delinks it and dallas-test* is renamed to dallas.tx.*. almere.nl.* delinks in October, due to an EU r-com vote. It was unstable. sevilla.es.* links in October with goku as admin. leiden.nl.* links in October with digiman as admin. oslo1.no.* becomes a server only for web clients in October. In November, EUworld links (the one written by Nextie), and it is fully P10, while Uworld is not yet P10. chicago-r* delinks in December because the ISP didn't want to host IRC servers anymore. --- 1998: Wildthang's P10 server links in February as gateway1*. A few months later it changes to services1*, which has a web interface at the CService webpage. This is the first rcsd linked to Undernet. lowell.ma.* delinks in February (CFV-0052). It had been missing for 2 months and the admin was having trouble bringing it back. atlanta.ga.* links in March with Johannes and Angmar as admins. pittsburgh.pa.* links in March and soon thereafter delinks (CFV-0057). There were problems with the admin, ReliX, aka elsif, who had been involved with the server when it was linked before. leiden.nl.* delinks in April when its hosting ISP goes out of business. newyork.ny.* links in May with sjs as admin. los-angeles-r.ca.* delinks in May. mclean.va.* links in May with Emory as admin. springfield.mo.* delinks in May because the admin changed jobs. alexandria* links in May with delusion as admin, and delinks in June (CFV-0060) when there are concerns about delusion and his standing as a member of hacking groups. bari.it.* links in May with Nemesi as admin. R-com declines it for testlink so it delinks due to poor performance. diemen.nl.* delinks in July (CFV-0065). It had been missing a while and the admin had too much trouble bringing it back. stlouis-r.mo.* relinks in July to replace los-angeles-r*. graz.at.* links in July with Nico as admin. Brummie gives watchy an o:line on london* to protest the o:lines that admins were giving out on other servers, to people with questionable pasts, and general admin lack of caring about important issues. He says watchy never got the password to it. goettingen.de.* delinks in September because the admin changed jobs. gothenburg.se.* links in September with Snarf as admin, and it is approved as a hub in October. Snarf was the admin of the gothenburg* server when it was linked before. In October, Wildthang proposes the SMT (Services Management Team), a group that is trained to use Uworld3 thoroughly, and has access to maintain the userlist. They will also develop the AUP. There is some squabbling about SMT members having higher access than admins, but the admins eventually back down when they realize it's only access to user add/remove commands. Uworld3 is brought online very early in January 1999. It is a huge improvement over the old one, and fully P10. okc.ok.* is renamed to plano.tx.* in October, and services1* is linked behind it. baycity.mi.* is renamed to santaclara.ca.* in October and becomes a hub in November. washington-1.dc.* delinks in November because it is redundant. antwerpen.be.* is renamed to flanders.be.* in November. diemen.nl.* links in December with SlaapKop as admin. It's the same server and admin that were delinked earlier in the year, but he promised to do a better job this time. A CFV is passed to implement host hiding, but it isn't fulfilled until 2002, when 2.10.11 is released and +x is available. --- 1999: rockhill.sc.* delinks in February because the box died and nobody replaced it. regensburg.de.* delinks in April after the machine was hacked. poptix gets an o:line on lasvegas* because Angel111 wanted to give him a chance to prove himself in a positive way. This causes a huge controversy, he gets into /kill fights repeatedly, and buff resigned as admin-sec because of all the fighting. Typos replaces him. It all ends very badly when poptix encourages someone to hurt themselves, and several admins demand his o:line be removed, and poptix removed from Undernet, which happens. During the "remove poptix" flamewar, typos also resigns, and Super agrees to do it, even though he never really wanted the position. brussels.be.* (RCSD) links off flanders* in May. haarlem.nl.* links in May with xL as admin. There's an ongoing discussion about rcsd's place on Undernet, and Wildthang's motivations for using it. Originally there was Uworld, but then he links an rcsd off flanders* and another off stlouis-r*, with plans for another off oslo* that would replace EUworld. Helix thought they should all be removed becuse rcsd wasn't fully compliant with ircu with some functionality, and Run didn't like that it was closed source. It eventually comes to a vote on how rcsd servers can be run and from where. Related to the rcsd argument, in July, Cetlink (which hosted rockhill* and charlotte-r*) and I1 (which hosted stlouis* and stlouis-r*) had plans to merge and delinked the Cetlink servers because they were redundant. But in August, BigTim (the admin of stlouis*) got fed up with being unable to get people to agree to let him run an rcsd server and delinked both of his servers. He had wanted to make money on it from some kind of Undernet- rcsd profit sharing, but that plan was never even developed, much less implemented. Run resigned from coder-com because he didn't like rcsd, and because he felt admins didn't take him seriously enough and let him do what he wanted with the ircu code. At that time Nemesi was the only other person really working on the code, so he wrote a coder-com guidelines document to start up a newer, better coder-com, which was approved by admins. Bleep, Kev, Isomer, Ghostwolf, and others very quickly got back involved with ircu and coder-com as a result. amsterdam.nl.* links in June with Undertow as admin. He was also the admin when amsterdam* delinked a couple of years before. oslo1* returns to being a general-purpose client server in July. chicago.il.* delinks in July when the admin refuses to remove Godess' O:line. A lot of problems from Malaysian hosts results in a global ban on *.tm.net.my and *.jaring.my, which covers just about everyone in Malaysia. Jaring is willing to help curb abuse, but nobody at TM ever seemed to care. manhattan.ks.* links in September with tar as admin. Tar was also the admin of the server before it delinked 2 years ago. newyork-r.ny.* links in November as a cross-Atlantic hub. sjs is the admin. Wildthang setup the first proxyscanner as an extension of Uworld, which caused a lot of concern when people thought some machine from chatsystems.com was attacking them. Later he changed the hostname to undernet.org and all servers put a note in their MOTD about it. austin.tx.* links in October with Mark as admin. --- 2000 In January debate begins on how to hide hub and service IPs. Initially ssh tunnels were used to hide hub IPs, for a few hubs. This comes to a head when dallas-r* is asked to leave is host, and khagen (the admin) finds a new host, but it won't tolerate any attacks and insists on being hidden, so khagen wants a CFV to hide everything hideable from users. CFVs are passed to hide hubs and build Uworld functions into ircu. There is a hub-hiding patch feud between Run, Nemesi, and bleep. When 2.10.07.12 is released, is does hub-hiding, even from opers, as does 2.10.10.easter. amsterdam-r.nl.* links in January at the same site as amsterdam*. Previously the server had been acting as both a client server and hub, and that was not working out so well. lulea-r.se.* delinks in January by an EU r-com vote. It had been missing for several months. los-angeles.ca.* delinks in February (CFV-0125). It had been hacked and moved around many times without consulting admins or routing-com. ann-arbor.mi.* delinks in February (CFV-0126). It has very poor network performance. Bad things are set in motion when baltimore-r* ends up hosting both X and W. There are a lot of complaints that Chatsystems (plano*) is hosting everything as part of a conspiracy on the part of Wildthang to rule the world. This becomes less of an issue in March when plano* and services1* delink because they were attacked almost constantly and Wildthang couldn't put up with it anymore. At the same time, phoenix* delinks because of attacks. Vancouver* delinks soon after because of new company policy. Coder-com and Cservice start work on the CMaster project, to create a new P10 X/W using a SQL database for registration. paris.fr.* links in June with Mr_RIP as admin. vancouver.bc.* delinks in June when the hosting company institutes a "No IRC Servers" policy. In July Uworld, X, and W were offline due to hardware failure. By August they were back up. The Balt* client server stayed off because they new server couldn't handle all of it at the same time. Client server returned a week later. The proxyscanner had been disabled while the box was on Cyberdude's home machine, but reenabled when he got them all on balt*'s new permanent host. In August extended numnicks could be enabled since Euworld was rewritten to support them. Sengaia suggests taking channels* and *world* out of /map and /links, but Kev says it's not possible to take remove arbitrary servers. He says the integration is going, but going slowly. Also pointed out that X/W have to have public IPs because of the webpage. Cyberdude also reminds that X/W have to be linked behind a 2.10.07 server until they are P10, and that's why hidden1* exists. dp removes the ancient telnet2.eu.undernet.org telnet IRC service at the end of August 2000. TRi wanted to link his own proxyscanner since he didn't think Uworld's was good enough, in August 2000. Some suggest putting this into ircu, but Kev is opposed to that. Wildthang says he can code it into Uworld to improve it's SOCKS checking, if somebody would help him, and he's opposed to multiple proxy-scanning services. seattle* delinks in November because the company went bankrupt. October discussion starts on how CSC2k (cmaster) will work. Super resigns as admin-sec on Christmas day, 2000. Dintx replaces him in January 2001. oslo-r.no.* delinks in December due to relocating the server. oslo1.no.* is renamed to oslo.no.*. --- 2001 Huge DoS attacks starting the first week in January result in baltimore.md.*, baltimore-r.md.*, and newyork.ny.* delinking right away, atlanta.ga.* and dallas.tx.* at the end of January, gothenburg.se.* and manhattan.ks.* in February, newbrunswick.nj.* and auckland.nz.* in March, saltlake.ut.* in June, and lasvegas.nv.* in July. Because the balt* servers went offline, Uworld, X, and W were all offline as well. SeKs considered the old P09 X/W decommissioned and said this would be a good chance to get CMaster ready and linked to replace them. Amst-r* was constantly hit by DoS as well, and it couldn't keep EUworld linked, but wash-r* could, sort of, at least enough for opers to do their job. Work on CMaster was progressing smoothly by February. Opers were able to get usernames at the end of February, ahead of the pack. CFV-0165 to hide all the stuff from users passes in April, and ircu is thus modified with ircu2.10.10.pl14 which is released at the end of May. surrey.uk.* links in March with Illusion as admin. stockholm.se.* links in March with lexie as admin. napoli.il.* links in March with jester as admin. It delinked less than a month later. graz2.at.* links in March or April at the same site as graz*. dallas-r.tx.* delinks in April due to the admin changing jobs. CControl, the GNUWorld module for Uworld functions, is ready to go in early May. Admins want to see more testing of it, and Wildthang is opposed to linking it, yet he has some technical issues with relinking his Uworld. Euworld remains linked but doesn't have some necessary features. WT's Uworld does relink soon thereafter from another host. CControl links as Protocol in December 2001. It replaces the old EUworld a few months later, and in May 2002, a second copy is linked in North America as Protocol. It is renamed to Uworld after WT's Uworld goes away in April and doesn't come back. Leland resigns as r-com secretary in June and is replaced by Indian. amsterdam* gets a hardware upgrade in June, and the old machine stays linked as amsterdam2.nl.* which becomes a test server. sandiego.ca.* delinks in July when the hosting ISP is bought out. ottawa.on.* debacle in July-August 2001, where it linked, was quickly hacked (requiring hubs to get new IP addresses), relinked, hacked again, and then delinked. MANIAC and fix were the admins. geneva.ch.* links in August with spale as admin. newyork.ny.* links in November with magic as admin. mesa.az.* links in December with Joey- as admin. --- 2002 paris.fr.* delinks in January due to DoS. newyork.ny.* delinks in February due to DoS. toronto.on.* delinks in February due to its data center moving, and the ISP not wanting to bother with it anymore. caen.fr.* delinks in March due to DoS attacks. It had been around a long time. moscow.ru.* links in March with Uvex as admin. jamaica.ny.* links in March with modsiw as admin but delinks in April due to the hosting ISP not wanting it. atlanta.ga.* links in July with Acidli as admin. quebec.qu.* links in July with Bio` as admin. flanders.be.* delinks in August since it was redundant with diemen*, and diemen2.nl.* was linked at the same site as diemen* to replace it. brussels.be.* was also delinked at this time, the last RCSD on Undernet. elsene.be.* links in August with LordLuke as admin. oslo2.no.* links in August at the same site as oslo* to provide room for more clients. austin.tx.* delinks in September due to DoS. bucharest.ro.* links in September with tim as admin. sanjose.ca.* links in September with DeeCee as admin. He was previously the admin of toronto*. oslo.no.* is renamed to oslo1.no.* in September so that the oslo* name can be used for load balancing between oslo1* and oslo2*. arlington.va.* is renamed to fairfax.va.* in October. --- 2003 quebec.qu.* delinks in January due to DoS.