IRC
One of the first services, has been around since around 2000 on a dial-up connection, which was more or less worthless, and also one of the first services to run on the rented servers since around 2001.
Feel free to join us! If you don’t know where to start just wait and you should be joined to the #help channel automatically.
More Connection Options and Details
At time of writing the network consists of the following publicly reachable servers:
- irc-01
- irc-02
These have DNS records in the following domains:
- netwichtig.ch
- netwichtig.de
- netwichtig.org
- linux-geeks.ch
- linux-geeks.de
- linux-geeks.org
There is also DNS Round Robin in place under the domainname irc on each of those domains.
- The servers offer both plain and SSL/TLS-secured ports:
- plain
- 6667
- 6668
- SSL/TLS
- 6697
Example for connecting to the first server using SSL/TLS:
irc-01.linux-geeks.org:6697