[Foundation-l] irc.freenode.net -> chat.freenode.net and patience

Sat Dec 17 16:13:07 UTC 2005

On 12/17/05, Florence Devouard <anthere at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> If you are of the same type than I, you may have had troubles to connect
> to any of freenode channels for the past 15 hours or so.
> It seems some irc clients mention the problem, others do not do anything
> except for endlessly looking for the channel and not finding it (that
> was my case).
>
> It seems to be a spambot attack on freenode. You may try the channel
> chat.freenode.net. It works.

Sometimes it helps to try a different server, here's the list:
http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml

Dori