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Freenode IRC is down

• akerl_ 13y ago
  Works for me; have you ruled out a local connection issue?
  • agersant 13y ago
    It seems to be back up. I got confirmation it was down for a few minutes, at least not only in my area.
    • akerl_ 13y ago
      I just got hit with a netsplit; looks like a rough day for the network.
• deleted 13y ago
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• speeder 13y ago
  They are taking a massive DDoS, not only it is having recurrent netsplits, the services (chanserv, nickserv) are getting up and down, and lots of bogus users are logging in and off (right now I am seeing a 31NAEEEF5Q for example... and some minutes ago I saw 18 users in the same style in a channel that had 3 real users)
  • bretc 13y ago
    I'm pretty sure that happens when a nick collision happens.
    • zecho 13y ago
      Yep. The users with names like that in channels I'm in are actual users.
  • ValentineC 13y ago
    The "bogus users" are probably bots like those of scrollback.io's (which is a service used by a few channels that I frequent).
• bretc 13y ago
  It sounds like it primarily affecting US servers. Avoid those and don't use the chat.freenode.net servers.
• mapt 13y ago
  It started experiencing frequent netsplits as the Super Bowl stream began, and went down completely a few seconds before the Half-Time Show, then came back up for a few seconds right after it ended. Since then I've been reconnecting over and over without being able to load any channels. It's just come back up as of five minutes ago, with normal chat working. (US user)
• songgao 13y ago
  Mine's not working either. Connection refused on both +7000 and +7070
• cookrn 13y ago
  Lots of mentions in here of the term "netsplit". I hadn't heard of it before, so here's some context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit
• jlgaddis 13y ago
  This probably doesn't help: $ dig chat.freenode.net | grep 127 chat.freenode.net. 264 IN A 127.0.0.1 chat.freenode.net. 264 IN A 127.0.0.2
  • chjj 13y ago
    Did a double take when I saw this in irssi: 23:22:03 Looking up irc.freenode.net 23:22:03 Connecting to irc.freenode.net [127.0.0.1] port 6697 23:22:03 warning SSL handshake failed: Connection refused 23:22:03 Connection lost to irc.freenode.net
    • na85 13y ago
      FYI using IRC over SSL is useless.
      • jlgaddis 13y ago
        FYI, no, it's not and this stupid line of thinking is getting old. Just because the NSA can also connect to the server, join the same channels you're in, and see your conversations does not mean SSL is "useless". It's like saying that locking your car doors "is useless" because someone can just smash the window in.
        • na85 13y ago
          It's not stupid nor is your analogy apt. All it takes is one user not using SSL or not verifying certs for your chats to be vulnerable to eavesdropping.
          • q3k 13y ago
            As well as all it takes is one gmail user for your email conversation to be vulnerable to eavesdropping. Is this a reason to say SSL between your email client and server is useless?
• olsonea 13y ago
  FYI, you can still connect by using a named server, ie roddenberry.freenode.net. http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml