Feb 03, 2014 15:43
Hey all,
If anyone tried to get into chat last night and were unable to, it's because Freenode (who hosts the IRC servers that we use for chat) was under a denial of service attack. It was very widespread, but the Freenode staff (on Twitter @FreenodeStaff) is reporting that everything is back up and running pretty well now. I was able to log in through chat clients Textual and Colloquy and the Freenode webchat site.
I'll keep checking it today before re-watch and work on an alternative, if necessary.
Let me know in the comments or via email (author.angelita@gmail.com) if you have trouble accessing the chatroom.
Thanks!
ETA : Update to the update - I was also able to log in using the Kiwi webchat site. Though it still has verbiage there about a DDoS attack (aka denial of service attack), their twitter feed is reporting that they're no longer under attack.
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