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Started by Mephistopheles, Nov 09 2012 17:51 question

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#1 +Mephistopheles

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 17:51

Is Neowin IRC having issues? I can connect to it, but the login fails.

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#2 Haggis

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 17:56

I hope not as its the first place i am heading when i get in from work lol

#3 Timan

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 17:58

I'm on it right now, seems ok.

#4 OP +Mephistopheles

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 18:02 

* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Checking your username and password...
* Closing link (Frank@<redacted>) [Registration timeout]
* Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
Cycling to next server in Neowin...
* Disconnected ().

#5 xendrome

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 18:03

Same here

#6 OP +Mephistopheles

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 18:48

Well then, what gives?

#7 Haggis

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 18:53

same here

* Looking up irc.neowin.net
* Connecting to irc.neowin.net (208.43.57.26) port 6667...
* Connected. Now logging in...
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Checking your username and password...
* Closing link (haggis@*) [Registration timeout]
* Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
Cycling to next server in New Network...
* Disconnected ().
* Looking up irc.neowin.net
* Connecting to irc.neowin.net (208.43.57.26) port 6667...
* Connected. Now logging in...
* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Checking your username and password...

#8 +nesl247

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 18:57

As long as you are already on you are fine. I got disconnected as my surface went to sleep and now I can't get back in. The registration server is timing out is the error I'm getting.

#9 Timan

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 19:26

Mr Davie knows about the issue and is fixing it.

#10 DaveLegg

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Posted 09 November 2012 - 20:07

Fixed :D

#11 xendrome

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 23:06

Seems to be having issues again, at least for me

ERROR Closing link (xendrome@removedip) [Authentication failed.]

#12 +articuno1au

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 23:09

I'm on at the moment. Looks like I am not getting off (or am I ;))

Quote

<Mike> articuno1au: reconnect
<+articuno1au> nope
<+articuno1au> I will not
<Mike> damn
<Mike> who's stu... swuzzlebum, reconnect
******..

#13 xendrome

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Posted 12 November 2012 - 23:12

Yeah my server is connected but my desktop can't....

Got it fixed I believe, looks like it was on my end this time.

#14 DaveLegg

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Posted 13 November 2012 - 01:10

No issues connecting here

#15 +Brando212

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Posted 13 November 2012 - 01:29

i haven't been able to connect to the IRC for a couple months now, when i try to connect it just gets stuck at "Username and Password accepted, connecting..." and just sits there till it times out then tries again
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