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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Instant chats and central servers
Honestly if your company/NOC/whatever is going to use something like this to communicate, I would recommend running your own server, I've worked on financial institutions networks that actually used AIM for communications (ie, JoeBob: Can you change the PIN # on account XYZ to 1234 MarySue: Sure), and used a hotmail address for their ACH! (Automatic Checking withdrawl/deposit) it's insanely irresponsible to use a third party messaging service for anything that your customers information could pass through. FYI, there are ICQ servers you can run locally, but not for AIM or MSN, I would suggest an IRC server. Matthew S. Hallacy (if you're still in doubt, feel free to go read AOL and MSN's ToS for their messaging services) On 8 May 2001, Sean Donelan wrote: > > A question (and a test to see if I'm still subscribed) > > The various instant messenging services, such as AIM, ICQ, Microsoft, > Yahoo, other Messenger uses a central server to manage "presence". > > No central server appears to mean no instant messages, am I correct? > > What does this have to do with NANOG, apparently it is becoming more > common for backbone NOC folks to communicate with their friends in > other NOCs via one of these instant chat programs. I didn't realize > how common it was until I was informed about it last month when AOL/AIM > had difficulties. This month Yahoo Messenger had power difficulties, > which disrupted their central servers. > > If folks are using this these services for real-time communications, > should we be trying to improve their reliability? Or is this just a > "feature" of how presence services work. > > >
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