IRC busted?

[Leaderz0rz]

i can't connect to irc.gamesurge.net did it netsplit or somthing, or down?

[GrayDuck]

I'm not sure what's going on, but you're not alone... seems gamesurge started flaking out yesterday as well - but yeah...  I had issues w/ it too.

[Nuketheplace]

Yep, thats whats going on with me as well.  Sometimes I can connect, but other times...

[Fewlio]

It's been "flaking out" since before I even knew there was a thing called IRC. Try and connect to specific servers that you KNOW are up, like I prefer to connect to netfire.tx.us.gamesurge.net but more often than not it likes to die, so I connect to like Prothid.CA.us.gamesurge.net or Kanzi.CA.us.gamesurge.net. Sad part is this is all from memory :|.

[Temm]

yeah...damn its not working for me either.

[A Boojum Snark]

I think it is the US side of things that is broke. Cause I tried irc.eu.gamesurge.net and that has been working for me. (and no there is no noticable lag :p)

[Leaderz0rz]

Prothid.CA.us.gamesurge.net  works

[Nooblet]

Im on Clanshells.DE.EU.Gamesurge.net

I'm in all my channels but there noone and nothing there but all the topics and everything else are the same!?

Saw this on the gamesurge forums:
I suppose the DNS went down after a recent attack, that's why the server doesn't resolve.

-Apfel
GameSurge Staff

[Malevolent]

Yes, it has been quite screwy lately. I finally could connect this morning.

Spelling.

[duherman]

Yea same here. It wont let me connect to gamesurge. It just says "Unable to connect to server (Connection timed out)".

[holy_devil]

it seems the re-direct servers have been broken, you have to connect directly to a server, http://www.gamesurge.net/servers/ is the website with all the server names. just connect to your local one, should work fine.

[That Annoying Kid]

yeah I tried to get on yesterday and there was no one in #LM, I was able to get in a channel that I was banned from [only place I'm banned from online] due to no chanserv, and I figured they got DDosed or sumat