701531 - increase freenode IRC connection limit from SF guest network

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Brian Warner [:warner :bwarner]]

I'm hosting a small external-project developers meeting in the SF office,
about 6 people, and they're running into connection-limit problems when
trying to attach to the freenode IRC network. They're all using the
MozillaGuest wifi network, of course. I chatted briefly with one of the
freenode staff, and they said:

  <jbroome> To increase your connection limit, please email
  [e-mail] with the IP, expected number of connections, and an
  abuse contact. Also consider running an identd.

Could we do that? I could figure out the IP and mail them, but 1: the abuse
contact should probably be someone in Ops who can track down abusers if
necessary, and 2: running identd or some other scheme makes sense but is
beyond my purvue.

I assume that the MozillaGuest network uses a different external IP, and that
we've already talked freenode into accepting lots of connections from the
staff-only IP, and the problem is that we haven't done the same for the Guest
IP. I don't know what number of connections to recommend, maybe 10 or 20? (I
don't see any other non-staff groups in the office today, so I assume that we
managed to run into the per-IP quota with just 4 or 5 connections).

(I also imagine we've run into this problem before with the MV office, and
it's just that this is the first time we've encountered it for the SF
office).

thanks!

Comment 1

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Sure, I'll drop Freenode an email and see what we can do.

Comment 2

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Ben got this taken care of at Freenode. Feel free to re-open if you run into issues.

Comment 3

[Brian Warner [:warner :bwarner]]

thanks!