Network News
Latest news and updates from AustNet
New Routing site
Austnet today announce a complete revamp of the Austnet.org routing website. The new site includes an in-depth application system, and administration section, with the ability for users to make comments. Aka has been working hard on the site and his work is very much appreciated.
mIRC raises funds for Iraq appeal
For the month of April 2003 only, users who register their copy of mIRC will see 100% of the registration fee generously donated to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Iraq appeal.
New Subdomains
As of today, Austnet users will be able to access the support section of this website via the address http://support.austnet.org, and the community section by http://community.austnet.org. Chat users can simply type http://chat.austnet.org.
Farewell to Mission
Last night Mission resigned from ASD, for personal reasons. He will be sorely missed, particularly by our EU and US users who were helped by him in the early hours of the AU morning. Mission was a helper for 10 months with the Department.
New ASD helper
Congratulations to Webby, who has become the latest addition to the Austnet Services Department helper team. Webby has has association with #asd for some time, and is a welcome addition to the Dept.
New Cyber-stalking law for Victoria
A new cyber-stalking law for Victoria, Australia, has world-wide implications, for those who stalk people on the net, or via email, impersonate others or post false information about others. See the full article HERE.
April Fools!
Wallops-watchers were shocked this morning to be told that Austnet's domain has expired and had been registered by someone in Kansas, and that AustNet would be closing down in the next few days. Luckily for all this was just Hawkon's April Fools day joke :)
New Network Peak
Last night, AustNet peaked again - reaching 13919 concurrent connections. This is about the 4th time that AustNet has reached a new peak in recent history and demonstrates that our userbase and the network are growing healthily. Congrats guys and gals!
Austnet Statistics
As of today, AustNet statistics for the past 24 hours will be available on the site in graph form. User count, channels, server count and IRC Operator count are all graphed, updated hourly. In coming weeks we hope to add weekly graphs and longer term graphs.
Kas.* Testlink extended
Routing has extended the kas.* server's testlink for an extra 30 days due to administrational reasons. The server's vote and DNS entrys will be remain suspended until if/when the server is permlinked.