Java based IRC now on the site!

[Karawasa]

That's right, you can now access the IRC channel with just a click. Go to the site (http://www.eletd.com) and on the side menu you will see "Join The Chat Channel." Click it, and you will be able to join the channel via web interface.

Hopefully this encourages random visitors to chat.

[0rb3r]

That's an absolutely great idea Kara, i'll try it right away

[Karawasa]

Hopefully the true potential will be seen with the release of public beta.

[Cisz]

I can't reach the eletd channel, I tried chatzilla, the jawa client and trillian. Does anybody else have this problem, or is the problem on my side?

[Twilice]

This works for me.

It is the thing I use not chatzilla or such.

[Cisz]

After several hours I finally got in, and yesterday it was hard to connect too.

[holepercent]

haven't encountered any problems with gamesurge.. i've been online 24/7 for the last few days with no disconnects

[Cisz]

I think I solved my problem.

Appears I got infected with some sort of malware, and part of what it did was change the way the irc.gamesurge.net was resolved to an IP. I don't know exactly how this was done, but I think it might have manipulated the dns cache (yes, there is a dns cache). Now that I killed the malware with some proper sacnning and waited a while, all seems to be back to normal. (The dns cache seems to have expiring dates for all entries, so getting rid of a bad one can be done by flushing the cache or by waiting.)

[Kaini]

btw:

You can clear the dns-cache with `ipconfig /flushdns` too. (That somthimes sloves very strange problems...)

Google: clear dns cache has got lots of sites

[Cisz]

Just when I found out about "ipconfig /flushdns", the problem had disapeared.