Cannot connect to IRC channel

[PowerWyrm]

Connection is rejected with: "unable to join channel (invite only)". Sup?

[Warrior]

I'm sorry, we've recently reclaimed the channels, to get ops etc and for some reason it was set to invite only. Thanks for the notice, not sure I'd have spotted that :)

[PowerWyrm]

Still got problems with the channel: "#mangband Cannot send to channel" when typing something.

And the mangband bot doesn't seem to display anything...

[Warrior]

We got stuck in +m mode. tsk tsk, silly Warrior. :)

[PowerWyrm]

It has been a few days now that I can't connect to IRC again. Sup?

[Thorbear]

It has been a few days now that I can't connect to IRC again. Sup?

With the same error as above? And does this still happen? (considering we're noticing it 8 days later)

[PowerWyrm]

Nope, it seems that the whole freenode server is down (or unavailable). Has MAngband channel moved?

[Thorbear]

No, the MAngband channel has not moved, and from what I can tell, the Freenode network is still up, perhaps you've just been connection to a poor server?

[PowerWyrm]

What's the command to connect to the #mangband channel directly? I'm using mIRC and I don't see any special parameter attached to the link I have on the desktop.

[Thorbear]

I'm not sure exactly how it is done in mIRC, but in ChatZilla it is done by specifying the server as:

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irc://freenode/MAngband

If you are already connected to Freenode, a simple join should suffice:

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/join #MAngband

Specifying the channel won't help if you're not connected to Freenode though. If connecting to Freenode as a network doesn't work, you can try to specify chat.freenode.net as server, which will assign you to the assumed closest server, otherwise there is a list of servers on their website: http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml

[PowerWyrm]

Ok it works now. I was using irc.freenode.net as server name, which was not working. Using chat.freenode.net instead fixed the problem.