Freenode IRC is down

Re:Freenode IRC is down by speeder on Sunday February 02, 2014 @09:04PM (#7168450)

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)

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Re:Freenode IRC is down by bretc on Sunday February 02, 2014 @11:15PM (#7168791)

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

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Re:Freenode IRC is down by zecho on Monday February 03, 2014 @11:39AM (#7171606)

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

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Re:Freenode IRC is down by ValentineC on Monday February 03, 2014 @03:00AM (#7169399)

The "bogus users" are probably bots like those of scrollback.io's (which is a service used by a few channels that I frequent).

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