On 12/17/05, Florence Devouard anthere@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