Routing
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Intershells Server Link Application - Version-2.0 - 12/18/2025 by Parrot
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Before you apply, you should make sure your server meets all requirements, and
you are familiar with BUZZnet. Buzznet requires each server to bring their own
actual resolvable and reversable domain. i.e. yourserver.buzznet.ovh is not a valid
name for a server wishing to link, where as irc.yourdomain.com is a valid name.
As long as the address responds properly to DNS propagation and places
connections on that specific server. This is known as an open domain network.
Where as yourserver.st.us.dal.net is an universal domain network, we adopt the open style
such as networks like ircnet and efnet. Where each server represents the domain
owned by the admin or the company sponsoring the server. t
First you should know,
We are looking for servers with good bandwidth and connectivity, in most
cases hosted and sponsored by ISPs or network operators.
Applications that do not follow these instructions will be ignored!
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Section: Quick Link Eligibility Check List
A. Have you (admin) read and understood the Server Application Guidelines
and believe your server to meet the requirements of linking to BUZZnet?
B. Is your server provider-sponsored, or being paid for by you or
your business? Paid servers are allowed, so long as the admin can
convince us it is long term and financially fees able for the admin to
maintain the fees.
C. Are you running some flavor of UNIX? We suggest strongly one of the More Popular forms of Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Mint,
D. Is your server capable of absorbing massive, multi-GBit/second DDoS
attacks? At this point you should have a server that performs proper filtration
and utilizes multiple firewalls.
If you answered No to any of the above questions, do not submit an
application. Do not submit this portion with your application.
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Server Main Application.
Section 1: Server Information
a. Full server (machine) hostname: i.e. (irc.funeral.housemartin.org and the full dns reverse to the machine. 195.20.230.38 -> director.medical-abuse.com)
b. Server's IPv4 address:
c. Server's IPv6 address:
d. Hosting Provider:
e. Ports (ports 6665-6669, 7000,, 6697[ssl] required):
g. Server's operating system/version:
h. Server's processor info (type/speed/cores):
i. Server's memory:
j. Is the machine dedicated to IRCd(The fewer daemons running the better, as this reduces the number
of required ports to be open on the machine):
k. Server's geographic location (city, state/country):
l. Maximum clients you will allow. By now you should have or go ahead and install
the latest version of the unrealircd, the # of file descriptors and clients allowable will
automatically be set durring its compile:
M. Are you or your sponsor applying or linked to any other IRC networks?
(please list):
n. Is this a physical server or a virtual machine?:
If virtual, please complete questions 1q-1v
o. Are the CPU/RAM resources dedicated to the guest dynamically shared,
or dedicated to the irc vm?
p. VM Host Software & Version:
q. VM Host hardware specifications (Total CPU/Cores/RAM):
r. Approximate number of guests on this host infrastructure:
s. Please list anyone with administrative access to the VM Host:
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Section 2: Personal Information
1. Admin's real name (Last, First):
2. Admin's E-Mail address:
3. Admin's nickname on BUZZnet:
4. Does admin have "root" access on server:
5. Who else has "root" access on server (Please list and explain why):
Note: Console/admin access to a VM host counts as root access.
6. Server owner's name (or ISP):
7. Server owner's E-Mail address:
One Buzznet admin will be required to be given sudo access to the machine for emergancys.
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I. Where is your server hosted? (Please give the name and location of the
ISP and/or datacenter)
Please indicate your relationship to the hosting provider and whether
your server is colocated (i.e. you are personally paying for bandwidth),
ISP-sponsored or has some other arrangement.
Is your host/provider sponsoring any IRC servers on other networks?
If so, please list.
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Section 4: Routing Information
. How much outgoing bandwidth (in Mbit/s) is available to the server?
. Describe, in detail, how your server will be filtered from Denial of
Service attacks. Make sure you include the hardware type and software
release running on the devices doing the filtering.
Note: For security reasons, any information provided in 4b and 4f will be removed from your application before it is shared beyond the Routing team.
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Section 5: Free Answer (Use as much space as needed)
. Please describe the ways you have been associated with irc and ircd
you feel your server should become part of Buzznet:
Do you have any irc operators in mind. You may have only one operator during your test-link
and may add one additional operator once your test-link is over and you are granted perm link.
3 opers in total, yourself as admin, one assistant admin, and one Global oper
There are approx. 112 waking hours in a week, how many hours do you think you will be able to contrib
to BUZZnet per week.
\ Please provide a brief summary of your *personal* experience in:
1) implementing OS level configuration changes to accomodate ircd
2) actually compiling and running ircd
3) any other relevant *technical* skills that you have
What action will you take if your server's performance becomes a
detriment to the operation of Buzznet.
5f. Do you have anything you would like to add that you haven't yet been
able to tell us? (If so, please describe.)
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Section 6: Traceroutes
Please submit a set of 25 pings to the following ips.
irc.buzznet.ovh and paste the results like so..
00- irc.buzznet.ovh ping statistics ---
29 packets transmitted, 29 received, 0% packet loss, time 28044ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 113.458/113.556/114.172/0.122 ms
irc.chatnb.ca
And lastly ask BUZZnet admin Adro to ping you from irc.funeral.housemartin.org.
once he has given you those results email the application to buzz-route@housemartin.org
