We got a new server “Lithium” witch is in the UK this will provide UK people a faster connections. Take a look at the speed update.

User 1 UK:   User to RedFire(US): 270 ms, User to Lithium UK: 32 ms.

User 2 UK:   User to RedFire(US): 589 ms, User to Lithium UK: 106 ms.

Now if you add Lithium to Hub its +89.1 ms.

This is a big update for TechToKnow, and to keep you connected to the fastest IRC Server you will be tested before you connect each server will ping you for the fastest server and load you to it. So You will know your chatters will always have the fastest server and if the ping fails we will load a default one.

Also like to take a Look at your ping to it? take a Look at the Servers page of TechToKnow IRC we added it so you can look at your ping, Its not Open for Public use yet but will be up ASAP.

Have Fun and happy chatting!

~RCP

We All know IPTables and well be a bitch… so by adding the following lines to your /etc/bash/bashrc   and/or ~/.bashrc

You can easy block ips on the Table Level Thats(PINGs, and all Data in and out) You wound really need a fast way to add Ip blocks and Table Level when a DDos, Floodnet, Clonenet eg…

How to Use,

First Your Going to need to have iptables installed
Gentoo: emerge iptables   (Must be  Root to use/install iptables)
Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install iptables

• “blockedips” Will Show all Blocked hosts
• “blockip IPHERE” Will Block that ip
• “unblockip IPHERE” Unblocks that ip

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Enter this code into /etc/bash/bashrc or ~/.bashrc   then source /etc/bash/bashrc  and/or ~/.bashrc
Code:

# http://thegeekoftheworld.com/
alias blockedips=”iptables -L”
alias blockip=”iptables -I INPUT -j DROP -s ”
alias unblockip=”iptables -D INPUT -j DROP -s ”

#Code  Thats it!  TEST….