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- <h1><abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr></h1>
- <p>Day 00347: Wednesday, 2016 February 17</p>
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- I've come to the conclusion that my obsession with short names is counterproductive to setting up an <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr> network for several reasons.
- First and foremost, I need allies more than I need a great name.
- <a href="http://zdasgqu3geo7i7yj.onion/">The Unknown Man</a> and I seem to agree on a lot of things as to how the network should be run.
- If I can play my strengths and he his, we should have a better chance of success than either of us would alone.
- The Unknown Man beat me to being prepared, so if that means that he gets to pick a cool-sounding name instead of me getting to pick a single-character name, that seems more than fair.
- Furthermore, my obsession with short names makes no sense, given the current context.
- When dealing with domain names, there is a length limit.
- Simply put, a short domain name technically has more subdomains than a long domain name.
- In practice, this does not mean a whole lot, as even the longest possible second- or even third-level domains has many more times the number of subdomains than there exist <abbr title="Internet Protocol version Four">IPv4</abbr> and <abbr title="Internet Protocol version Six">IPv6</abbr> addresses combined.
- If you have a domain, there may not be enough disk space or computing power in the world to host unique content and/or services at every one of your subdomains, assuming that you do not host something such as a dynamic Web page that generates content based on the domain name used to access the page.
- However, I find the extended range of subdomains to be rather symbolic of the open possibilities, possibilities that I'd be cutting myself off from by insisting on using such a short network name.
- Besides, network names do not have "sub-names".
- Only the single name would be used, and only really in <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s.
- As <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s do not seem to suffer from a length limit, as I said above, my obsession is out of context here.
- And that is not to mention the fact that the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> that makes use of the short name would only really work if we actually became known by our official name of "s".
- More likely, if our address even gets bundled in <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr> clients at all, we would become known as "s network", "s-net", or something else that is not just a single letter.
- The name "V0rtex" sounds much better, is easier to recognize, is more likely to catch on, and is more likely to lead us to actually becoming a major network.
- There is little change that we actually <strong>*will*</strong> become a major network, but I should not be imposing strange restrictions that do nothing but hinder our chances.
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- Speaking of strange restrictions, I am going to try to convince The Unknown Man that we should keep our ports 994 and 6667 open to users if at all possible.
- He wants to rent server resource, so I don't know if the hosting company will allow use of port 994 to begin with.
- Furthermore, they use one of the <abbr title="Berkeley Software Distribution">BSD</abbr> systems, I forget which one, so the things I learned about making it work on that system may not apply, even if the hosting company allows it.
- I will say this: it is a good thing that I chose to use <abbr title="Next Generation IRC Daemon">ngIRCd</abbr> yesterday, as that is the daemon that The Unknown Man and I had discussed using before.
- If it wasn't, I would need to uninstall it and set up the other daemon.
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- I set up the onion ports 6697 and 9999 to forward to local port 994, so now TLS connections are available on all three ports.
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- I found that my school email account comes with a <abbr title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</abbr> account.
- Of course, this account cannot be trusted because it is hosted and run by Microsoft, but maybe it means that the school is willing to contact and be contacted via <abbr title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</abbr>.
- I haven't seen a <abbr title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</abbr> address on their website, so probably not, but it is worth asking about if I end up going to school there.
- When I find the time, I need to get my own <abbr title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</abbr> account set up under my own domain.
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