Please make our new server feel welcome:
amsterdam-nl.pirateirc.net hosted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This server supports IPv4, IPv6, certified SSL and SASL authentication and is approved as the official server for the Pirate Party of The Netherlands (the PPNL / Piratenpartij Nederland).
This server has been added to the DNS pool and is the default server for Dutch users connecting to nl.pirateirc.net.
Please also give a warm welcome to its new server administrator Argure.
Please make our new server feel welcome:
sydney-au.pirateirc.net hosted in Sydney, Australia.
This server supports IPv4, certified SSL and SASL authentication and is approved as the official server for the Pirate Party of Australia (the PPAU).
This server replaces the delinked ashburn-us leaf. The old backup admin / oper on ashburn-us, Brendan (from the PPAU) is now the primary admin. sydney-au made the primary server for Australian and New Zealand PirateIRC users (using DNS pools au.pirateirc.net and nz.pirateirc.net).
Remember to say hi to Brendan in #opers when he appears!
Our US server, sponsored by the Pirate Party of Australia, has delinked from the network. It will shortly be replaced with another server. The admin of ashburn-us, mwheeler, has also left the network. The server has been removed from the DNS pool and you should be automatically redirected to other servers.
Our thanks go to mwheeler for providing the server for the past few years.
Another new server client server has linked:
montreal-ca.pirateirc.net hosted in Montreal, Canada.
This server supports IPv4, certified SSL and SASL authentication and is approved as the official server for the Pirate Party of Canada.
One of our client servers, stockholm-se.pirateirc.net hosted by the Swedish Pirate Party is offline for the moment.
The DNS pool has been updated and you should be able to connect via other servers for the moment. We’ll update this post once the issue has been resolved.
Update: stockholm-se.pirateirc.net is now stable again and has been re-added to the DNS pool.
Please make our new server feel welcome:
tallinn-ee.pirateirc.net hosted in Tallinn, Estonia.
This server supports IPv4, certified SSL and SASL authentication and is approved as the official server for the Piraattipuolue, Pirate Party of Finland.
Today (Sunday 29th of April) we’re going to start a round of network-wide upgrades which will include updates to the services, webchat and replacing the SSL certificates.
We’ll issue broadcasts before anything is done that may affect your idling on the network as usual.
Update: as of now, Tuesday May 8th we’re largely happy most of the upgrades have been completed without incident.
We’ll shortly be performing some routine maintenance and upgrades that primarily affect the UK side of the network.
You may be disconnected briefly as the particular IRCd you are connected to is restarted, however the downtime will be very brief. Part of this is preparing for a larger upgrade in April.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused!
Update: the maintenance has been completed without significant issues.
On PirateIRC we use charybdis as our IRC server. There’s lots of modes and options that many people don’t use so we’ve mirrored the excellent PDF oper manual written by the authors of charybdis for anyone interested to browse through.
Our hidden Tor client server, 6lqaoo6bwnx5qmx6.onion, will be undergoing some maintenace later today and will be unavailable for a short time.
Update: the Tor server should be upgraded and back to it’s usual self now!
