DALnet"s nightmare keeps getting worse as the beleaguered network lost the typhoon.dal.net hub and its all-important twisted.dal.net server in one fell swoop.
The admin of both these servers, frink, delinked them for what two high-placed sources at the network are only calling "personal reasons".
frink told IRCNews, "For the past two years I have operated twisted.dal.net, the largest irc clientserver to my knowledge, having held 58391 users at one point. Due to irreconcilable differences of opinion with other DALnet administration, I have decided to discontinue my link to DALnet. I wish DALnet the best of luck in the future."
With all other DALnet servers suffering under the crushing load of its client-base, the loss of twisted could prove to be one of the final nails in the coffin for DALnet - who were the world"s largest IRC network as recently as August 15th, 2002. The network has since plummetted to 5th and all indications are that DALnet may be a sinking ship.
"Running a dalnet server hasn"t been fun for a long time. And I finally reached a point where it made sense to just stop," said frink.