MintIRC

Hub Downtime

dhp1080 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:46:43 +0000

Tonight at around 1:15 AM, our network hub which hosts services and keeps the network linked together went down for a period of about 10 minutes. While the servers automatically switched hubs, there was a services downtime of around 10 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

In other network news, after a recent series of downtime, fierce.mintirc.net and gray.mintirc.net have rejoined the network. While not in the round robin, feel free to return to using them if you so desire.

Hopefully everyone had a happy and healthy New Year and we hope to see you next year as well.

Network Issues

owine — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:36:41 +0000

We are currently experiencing issues with the network related to some strangeness with the InspIRCd software. We are working with the developers to get the issue resolved and hope to have the network restored as soon as possible. Please bear with it, there will be some netsplits and server restarts.

Update (12/11/08 6:25 PM CST): The issues have been fixed and additional steps have been taken to prevent them from happening and having profound effect in the future. We have also added additional redundancy to the network. The issues were fixed late yesterday, but I (owine) am extremely busy (final exam season, yay!) so it took me a while to update this post.

Strange Rejoins and IPv6

dhp1080 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:47:30 +0000

Strange, after undergoing a server move due to instability, has rejoined the network. It is now located in Amsterdam, Netherlands and is still provided by Shaun. This server move should produce more reliable connectivity, especially for users located in Europe. For these users, we added the round-robin “eu.mintirc.net” to automatically connect you to a European server.

With this server move, we now offer IPv6 connections on Strange. Simply resolve irc.mintirc.net to an AAAA record and you will be connected to the network via IPv6. We hope this new service offering will help facilitate the growing move to IPv6 networking.

As a note, we have also added ports 9999 and 7000 as SSL ports for the network (We still offer port 6697). Thanks for using MintIRC!

Welcome Fierce to the Network

Manuel — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:16:01 +0000

Please welcome our new server, fierce.mintirc.net, to the network. It is located in Tampa, FL and is provided by our newest staff member, xTu.

Thanks for using MintIRC.

SpamServ Information

dhp1080 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:12:45 +0000

If you are interested, SpamServ is available to any channel that wishes to have an anti-spam service monitor their channel. SpamServ prevents against common spam terms (such as offensive URLs) and other common spamming criteria. To have SpamServ join your channel, simply /join #help and request that it be added to your channel by an operator.

Channel Updates

dhp1080 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:23:34 +0000

Just making sure everyone knows, MintIRC will remain the home of #hak5. Also, congratulations to the Hak5 team on their new partnership with Revision3.

As always, we welcome any and all communities (within our AUP of course) to come and create a channel on our network. If you have any questions, please feel free to /join #help on the network.

Looking For The Latest Network News?

owine — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:27:39 +0000

We have recently opened up a Twitter account for the network that we will use to announce any minor server connectivity issues as well as more major issues.

Check it out and follow us to keep up on your favorite IRC network. http://twitter.com/mintirc

New Servers & New Site

owine — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:12:26 +0000

It seems I never made a post about our server developments or new website.

Much thanks goes out to the ever-wonderful dhp1080 for this great website we have built upon WordPress. Previously we were using some junky wiki woftware, but WordPress allows us much more flexibility.

Second, as many of you know, longtime server apollo.mintirc.net will be leaving the network. However, it will be replaced by not one, but three, yes three, new servers. We welcome strange.mintirc.net, gray.mintirc.net and fafner.mintirc.net to the network. For more information on these servers, visit our Server List page.

As always, thank you for using MintIRC and we hope you enjoy your stay.

Z-Line Information

dhp1080 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:06:18 +0000

We have been encountering many unwanted bots connecting to the network recently that follow a specific pattern. This pattern has been set to be automatically banned from the network. While we try to keep our bans as specific as possible, we also must ban wider masks for efficiency. If you encounter any issues while connecting to the network, please visit our contact us page. Thanks for your cooperation.