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Netburp

Netburp, also known as netsplit, refers to the instance that large numbers of people on the Instant Relay Chatting (IRC) network seem to be signing off at the same time. Netburp may be caused due to a busy and overloaded network when netlag gets really bad, and delays between IRC servers exceed a certain threshhold, the network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time. People then signing back on again when things get better.

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