2003-12-13T18:30:02Z DALnet webmaster@dal.net 2013-05-19T00:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce that services now has the Urdu language pack. You can try it out by using the "/NickServ LANG UR" command. Special thanks to ChiefMinisteR, Sohni and salman_Arfie! A...

2013-05-09T22:00:00Z

DALnet has appointed key as the new KLine team leader. key will replace SaD who has chosen to step down as the leader of the KLine team, a position he has had the last year or so. Thanks for th...

2013-02-14T23:00:00Z

Greetings everyone! Everyone that use either twitter or Facebook can follow our latest updates by subscribing and liking our pages. http://twitter.com/dalnet http://www.facebook.com/dalnetirc ...

2013-01-02T00:00:00Z

DALnet's webteam has implemented our own installation of the qwebirc web irc client package! Please feel free to try out this new client now, on www.dal.net, in the right hand column under "Chat Now"...

2013-01-02T00:00:00Z

DALnet now offers support for clients connecting via IPv6. Currently, halcyon.il.us.dal.net supports client connections over ipv6, and we plan to roll out support to underworld.se.eu.dal.net very so...

2012-09-25T00:00:00Z

Greetings Dalnetizens! In response to feedback/complaints from users, we have changed the way irc.dal.net works. Starting today, irc.dal.net will place you randomly on one of our public server...

2012-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Arcor Empire (the hub brain, and the client servers matrix and arcor) has consolidated to one server: arcor.de.eu.dal.net. Rest in peace, matrix and brain!

2012-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hello DALnet! We have been doing some server upgrades today, trying to get many of our servers up to the newest version of our ircd, bahamut-2.0.3. You may have noticed some instability and splits...

2012-02-29T00:00:00Z

DALnet's coders team has released bahamut 2.0.3, available at http://code.dal.net/release/ It includes a couple of bug fixes from the 2.0.2 code.

2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

DALnet would like to announce the release of bahamut 2.0.2, available at http://code.dal.net/release/ The main new features of the 2.x tree are improved 64-bit support, and ipv6 support. Please no...

2011-12-04T00:00:00Z

choopa.nj.us.dal.net has been linked to DALnet and administrated by Ahnberg!

2011-12-02T22:00:00Z

DALnet has appointed bel as the new leader of the Operator Training team. Congratulations bel! :) We would also like to thank the former leader, WhatWhat for all the time she has put into DALnet...

2011-11-29T22:00:00Z

The routing team has announced the delink of rapid.nl.eu.dal.net (Admin: skill, AA: pha).

2011-11-28T22:00:00Z

The routing team has announced the delink of valhall.no.eu.dal.net (Admin: xerath, AA: Niflheim). The DALnet admin team has voted to transfer the adminship of hash.* to xerath and Niflheim.

2011-10-31T22:00:00Z

The AOB team has appointed Kobi_S as the new KLine team leader. Welcome and congratulations, Kobi! We would also like to thank the former KLine team leader, traumatic for all his hard work!

2011-10-02T22:00:00Z

The AOB team has appointed skill as the new web team leader. skill will replace martell who has chosen to step down due to lack of time. Thank you for your time martell, and welcome skill!

2011-10-02T22:00:00Z

The routing team has announced the delink of aeon.ix.us.dal.net (Admin: Wisdom, AA: Quension).

2011-09-30T18:00:00Z

swiftco.wa.us.dal.net, global.hub.dal.net and serverbuffet.wa.us.dal.net are now officially delinked from DALnet.

2011-09-04T18:00:00Z

The DALnet Coding Team has released Bahamut 2.0.0. The following announcement was sent by epiphani: Greetings All, One year and two days after the release of Bahamut 1.8.9, we've released Bahamu...

2011-08-28T22:00:00Z

Atlanta.* moved to a new location and is now known as acool.ca.us.dal.net. Admin: ET-SR. AA: CJ.

2011-06-22T22:00:00Z

The DALnet admin team has voted to link underworld.se.eu.dal.net to the network under the adminship of suom1.

2011-05-23T22:00:00Z

Hi all, DALnet has appointed two new team leaders: 1) The Services Abuse team will be lead by klb. 2) The Exploits Prevention team will be lead by xerath. We wish them both good luck and we th...

2011-04-06T00:00:00Z

Follow us on http://twitter.com/dalnet We will post news, updates, and other random thoughts to keep you entertained and informed. Thanks for flying DALnet :)

2011-03-02T22:00:00Z

The routing team has announced the delink of aqua.se.eu.dal.net (Admin: Wheemp, AA: SaD). We would like to thank Wheemp and the aqua.* team for their contribution to the network.

2011-02-15T22:00:00Z

The routing team has decided to officially declare the following servers delinked: waffle.ix.eu.dal.net (Admin: Wisdom, AA: Quension) genesis.uk.eu.dal.net (Admin: Ahnberg) hotspeed.sg.as.dal.net (...

2010-12-24T04:00:00Z

DALnet Staff would like to wish all of our wonderful users a very Happy and safe Holiday season. Merry Christmas to those whom celebrate it, and hopefully you've been a good girl or boy, so Santa w...

2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

New European Public DALnet Server granted a test link! On behalf of the DALnet Routing Team and the Admin Team, I would like to extend congratulations and welcome to the team behind rapid.nl.eu.dal...

2010-09-27T22:00:00Z

Fellow DALnetters, We have changed the way NickServ and ChanServ handle SENDPASS requests. Previously, the current password of the nickname/channel was directly sent to your E-Mail. Effective...

2010-09-04T00:00:00Z

As a part of today's services upgrade, we have changed the expiration routine for channels: When a popular channel expires - the channel's ops first get a chance to register it, if they don't regis...

2010-07-31T18:00:00Z

Hi all, The following changes has been made to services, and are effective immediately: 1) New language pack: Portuguese (/NickServ LANG PT). Special thanks to Master_Of_Chaos! 2) NickServ/Ch...

2010-07-17T00:00:00Z

The following changes were released today as part of our ongoing services updates: * MemoServ SENDCHAN - Lets users send channel memos to specific access lists (founder always gets a copy). * Ch...

2010-06-17T22:00:00Z

Hi all, The DALnet Coding Team has released Bahamut 1.8.9. This release is a small patch release, consisting of several small bug fixes and updates. Most notably, this resolves an issue with SS...

2010-06-04T22:00:00Z

Hi all, The following changes were released today as part of our services update: 1) The default mlock has been changed to +nt-kS. 2) Users can see the successor line with ChanServ INFO if they a...

2010-05-27T18:00:00Z

We are pleased to announce the following additions to our user services: 1) Channel managers - Founders can now add up to 5 managers to their channel. Managers have *almost* full control over the cha...

2010-05-18T00:00:00Z

As many of you have noticed, there have been a number of splits and server restarts in recent weeks as we upgrade all of our servers to the latest version of bahamut, 1.8.8. The most notable and user...

2010-05-14T04:00:00Z

As you may have noticed over the past couple of days, DALnet Routing has been re-starting some servers, causing quick splits within the network. The reason for this, is to update our ircd's to Baha...

2010-05-02T22:00:00Z

Greetings All, The coding team is proud to announce the release of Bahamut 1.8.8. Most notably, this release provides client-side support for SSL connections, and numerous small fixes and updates...

2010-04-30T22:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce the addition of the Romanian language pack to its user services. Feel free to try it with the "/NickServ LANG RO" command. Special thanks to Zappu for writing it! ...

2010-04-08T22:00:00Z

DALnet's Nick Registration Service (NickServ) has been changed to ask for a "text captcha" before it process NickServ REGISTER requests. The goal of services is to always give nicks and channels to...

2010-04-03T18:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce the following changes to its user services: 1) Swedish language pack has been added. Feel free to try it with the "/NickServ LANG SE" command. Special thanks to Car`a`...

2010-02-18T17:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce the following changes to its' user services: 1) Changed services not to expire on-line identified users even if they didn't identify for 30 days. Note that you must us...

2010-02-15T22:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce the following changes to its' user services: 1) Indonesian language pack has been added. Feel free to try it with the "/NickServ LANG ID" command. Special thanks to mo...

2009-12-19T04:00:00Z

We here at DALnet would like to wish all of our users a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah. No matter what you are celebrating this Holiday Season, we hope you have a safe and happy holiday's...

2009-11-24T22:00:00Z

Hi all, The Help Committee presents a new help channel - #jmirchelp. This channel is specializing in helping users who connect to DALnet using one or another java client from their mobile device....

2009-09-14T22:00:00Z

Hello, Over the last few days, DALnet has appointed new team leader for some of its teams: 1) The KLine team will be lead by traumatic. 2) The Operator Training team team will be lead by WhatWhat...

2009-08-04T18:00:00Z

The DALnet admin team has voted to link aqua.se.eu.dal.net to the network under the adminship of Wheemp. It was previously linked by DALnet's routing team as aqua-r.*.

2009-07-12T03:00:00Z

users.dal.net has been integrated to the new website. all the functions should work nicely, apart from channel listing that is still under development. webteam is also working on a few more surpris...

2009-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Routing team has linked a new server to the network. It will be admined by Ahnberg at this time.

2009-06-16T00:00:00Z

Please help us in welcoming serverbuffet.wa.us.dal.net The server will be linked by the current swiftco.* staff (martell and Kobi_S)

2009-05-14T00:00:00Z

Please help us in welcoming Atlanta.ga.us.dal.net The server will be linked by the masters.ix.us.dal.net staff (ET-SR and CJ)

2009-04-30T01:00:00Z

***UPDATE*** 5 May 2009: We have reports from Malaysian users that they are able to connect to matrix.dal.net and arcor.dal.net. If you are connecting from Malaysia and are having difficulty, try /se...

2009-03-24T00:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce the test-link of a new client server, valhall.no.eu.dal.net. The server is located in Norway, Europe and will be open to all users. Please help us in welcoming val...

2009-03-15T20:00:00Z

Hello again DALnetizens! I'm pleased to announce that Bahamut 1.8.6 has been released. The issue was with the +c channel mode in 1.8.5 relating to blocking characters that it shouldn't. You c...

2009-03-14T20:00:00Z

Hello DALnetizens! DALnet and it's development team are pleased to announce the release of Bahamut 1.8.5. All changes can be found in the changelog. Bahamut 1.8.5 (and previous versions) are ...

2009-03-08T20:00:00Z

Although delayed by almost a week, please help the web team in welcoming its' newest member lorddracula. lorddracula will be helping with the general upkeep of the new DAL.net

2009-02-12T19:00:00Z

DALnet would like to wish it's Unix users a very happy 1234567890 day!

2009-02-11T19:00:00Z

After a fairly long time of being absent, hoon.ix.au.dal.net is back online with new hardware. Admins are still Mustang and lorddracula.

2009-02-03T03:00:00Z

DALnet would like to welcome its newest server addition krypt.ca.us.dal.net Headed up by jrlenz, the DALnet WebTeam asked him for a brief intro about why he was coming to DALnet, and what he had to...

2004-08-19T17:00:00Z

Within the past hour we have had a failure of one of the hard disks in the server that hosts the http://channels.dal.net websites. We have attempted to correct the issues however we have unfortuna...

2004-03-31T17:00:00Z

DALnet has lowered the time an AUTH request remains active. This means that if you request an email change or to drop a nick, you now have 3 days (previously 7) to complete the auth process. This also...

2003-10-30T17:00:00Z

DALnet is pleased to announce the following changes: The French language has been added to Services. We are continually looking to expand our multilingual support, and plan on adding additional la...

2003-07-29T17:00:00Z

DALnet will soon be enabling nickname and channel expirations. Currently, no nicknames or channels are expiring because of a temporary expiration moratorium. We will start expiring unused nickname...

2003-02-01T17:00:00Z

Effective March 1, 2003 DALnet will be enforcing a change to its Acceptable Use Policy (http://www.dal.net/aup) which will prohibit "Using a channel for the primary purpose of facilitating the transfe...

2002-08-12T17:00:00Z

Recently many people have noticed it has been increasingly difficult to connect to the DALnet chat network. In an attempt to keep communications open with our users, we offer this explanation. IRC ...

2002-06-18T17:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the home.dal.net free websites have become too much of a burden to provide at this time. We have made no decisions at this time as to when, or even if, this service will return. The sit...

2002-03-12T17:00:00Z

On the 14th of March, the Zine staff released the latest issue of the DALnet zine. You can visit it at http://zine.dal.net.

2002-02-12T17:00:00Z

On the 13th of February, the Zine staff released the latest issue of the DALnet zine. You can visit it at http://zine.dal.net.

2002-01-06T17:00:00Z

On the 7th of January, the Zine staff released the latest issue of the DALnet zine. You can visit it at http://zine.dal.net

2001-09-10T17:00:00Z

The DALnet IRC network expresses their condolences to the families and communities of the victims of today's disasters in New York and Washington DC. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. DALnet ...

2001-08-28T17:00:00Z

As asked by many staff and users we have opened a wall that people can write on to express feelings. You may get to it by going to: Wall Of Remembrance

2001-08-26T17:00:00Z

It is my sad duty to announce the death of one of our operators. Konstantin Vrache, also known as "Police", was tragically killed in an automobile accident on the August 25th, 2001 at the age of 19. ...

2001-07-11T03:00:00Z

For those of you who share e-mail address or simply do not feel that your e-mail account is secure enough to have your password sent to you. That's okay! We have a command just for you. /msg nicks...

2001-07-11T03:00:00Z

We all know its the user's job to remember their nickname and channel passwords. But what happens in those rare occasions when our memory fails us, or we can't track down the place we wrote it down wh...

2001-07-11T03:00:00Z

DALnet's provides a free service which allows you to put up a webpage for your channel at http://channels.dal.net// . Until now, this has presented channel founders with a dilemma, "Do I maintain the ...

2001-07-07T17:00:00Z

After a long period without it expiry of no longer registered nicknames from AOP/SOP lists has returned.

2001-03-12T17:00:00Z

On March 4, 2001, DALnet found it necessary to place a domain ban on AOL due to their reluctance to deal with abusive users from their service. These domain bans are placed after many attempts to reso...

2001-03-03T17:00:00Z

As of Sunday, March 4, America Online will be banned from the DALnet IRC Network. This ban is in response to repeated and continued abuse and policy violations from AOL users. DALnet has tried repe...

2001-01-10T17:00:00Z

Seattle newspapers reported today that FBI agents seized the computer equipment of a 16 year old boy suspected of cyberterrorist activities. The link back to the boy apparently came from information p...

2001-01-07T17:00:00Z

Israeli newspapers reported on January 3rd, 2001 that 4 hackers linked to attacks on US systems were arrested. These arrests have been assisted by the hard work of DALnet and its Exploits Team and its...

2000-11-05T17:00:00Z

In order to slim down the number of lost passwords due to Services impersonators, /msg NickServ, /msg ChanServ, and /msg MemoServ has been changed to /msg NickServ@services.dal.net, /msg ChanServ@serv...

2000-09-30T17:00:00Z

Nickname and channel expiration times have been permanently increased from 20 days to 30 days.

2000-08-26T17:00:00Z

DALnet's at it again! Expanding on the project of giving registered users free web space, we'd like to extend the same feature to the owners of registered channels. It's simple to set up and a great w...

2000-08-15T17:00:00Z

DALnet's CEO, David Kopstain (taz), sent an important letter to DALnet's staff and userbase this evening setting the precedent on how DALnet will use email addresses submitted by users. A copy of the ...

2000-08-13T17:00:00Z

In order to register a nickname, the user must provide an email address for us to validate him/her. After registration, an email will be sent to the specified address and an authcode will be given to ...

2000-08-13T17:00:00Z

The long-anticipated /nickserv set email (email address) and /nickserv set showemail (on/off) were reactivated yesterday after its tentative departure from the services several months prior. Click...

2000-08-13T17:00:00Z

On September 10th, any and all nicknames without an email address and are not authenticated with the /nickserv AUTH command will be expunged from the services database. For registered users: Simpl...

2000-08-13T17:00:00Z

Staff info and server lists will now show the user's network status, ie Services Admin, Csop, Services Root Admin.

2000-08-09T17:00:00Z

Thanks to my hardworking staff, we were able to complete the long-awaited new website under the original estimated time. Feel free to contact us with recommendations, questions, or any mistakes tha...

2000-07-30T17:00:00Z

The commonly used /nickserv set KILL on|off command has been renamed to /nickserv set ENFORCE on|off. While the KILL command can still be submitted, it is due to be obsolete in the near future.

2000-07-16T17:00:00Z

Changes have been made ChanServ's UNBAN command. The ME option has been removed and the ALL option replaced with * To compensate for the removal of the ME option, /msg ChanServ UNBAN (#channel) wil...