Freenode IRC is down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7168282

by agersant • 12 years ago

21 25 12 years ago

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Does anyone know what is going on?

akerl_2• 12 years ago

Works for me; have you ruled out a local connection issue?

agersant• 12 years 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_2• 12 years ago

I just got hit with a netsplit; looks like a rough day for the network.

speeder• 12 years 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)

bretc2• 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure that happens when a nick collision happens.

zecho• 12 years ago

Yep. The users with names like that in channels I'm in are actual users.

ValentineC• 12 years 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).

mapt• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Mine's not working either. Connection refused on both +7000 and +7070

bretc2• 12 years ago

It sounds like it primarily affecting US servers. Avoid those and don't use the chat.freenode.net servers.

cookrn• 12 years 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

jlgaddis2• 12 years 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

chjj2• 12 years 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

na854• 12 years ago

FYI using IRC over SSL is useless.

olsonea• 12 years ago

FYI, you can still connect by using a named server, ie roddenberry.freenode.net.

http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml

Freenode IRC is down

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