New IRC server

[fire219]

The new IRC server is also not irc cloud friendly.

I don't want to have to install a separate irc client just for these couple of irc channels, I guess its affecting a lot of people.

I keep getting dumped from the server with the following.

Closing Link: DigiDaz[ealing.irccloud.com] (Too many connections from your IP)

I'd argue that it's not that common of a problem as this is the first time I've heard from anyone about it.

Regardless, I have significantly increased the connections per IP limit, and you should be able to connect via irccloud now.

Thanks but still no go for me:
<OperServ> The session limit for your IP 192.184.9.110 has been exceeded.

2:10 AM Closing Link: DigiDaz[ealing.irccloud.com] (OperServ (Session limit exceeded))

And today I discovered that Anope Services has its own max user-per-IP setting...

That too has been increased now.

[pfeerick]

Hexchat is preinstalled on the PBP, widely available in various distros, and the debian version is like 627 kB + 4256 kB disk space for hexchat + hexchat common, two packages & one apt-get command.  Not exactly dependency hell & and it's not complicated to configure.

That might be the case, but it doesn't solve one of the major issues one would use a service like irc cloud for, which is continuous presence across devices... although for that I used to use a ssh tunnel into a pine64 I left permanently logged into IRC, and later I instead used weechat as a IRC relay. But hexchat is a simple and light option, available for most OSs and architectures. As far as use case the digitaldaz hinted at, best fix would be to reinstate the web IRC chat, but I don't see that happening as it was already falling apart before the transition to the cluster.

[namarang]

I completely agree with this option : Not exactly dependency hell & and it's not complicated to configure.

[danielt]

I think the certificate problems with IRC may have reoccured.

My GUI client just says "no" but connecting with a terminal one gives a fairly clear summary

                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | irc: reconnecting to server...
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | irc: connecting to server irc.pine64.org/6697 (SSL)...
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | gnutls: connected using 2048-bit Diffie-Hellman shared
                            │                     | secret exchange
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | gnutls: receiving 2 certificates
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | - certificate[1] info:
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- |   - subject `CN=irc.pine64.org', issuer `CN=Let's
                            │                     | Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US', serial
                            │                     | 0x032660adffb527ea2734bad591dffbc278d0, RSA key 2048
                            │                     | bits, signed using RSA-SHA256, activated `2020-07-25
                            │                     | 16:22:12 UTC', expires `2020-10-23 16:22:12 UTC',
                            │                     | pin-sha256="NAycHHs3pSoeTiSSYtQS4tDf1qBk7NobV4LqQf61rZA="
                            │10:47:17  pine64 =!= | gnutls: certificate has expired
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | - certificate[2] info:
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- |   - subject `CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3,O=Let's
                            │                     | Encrypt,C=US', issuer `CN=DST Root CA X3,O=Digital
                            │                     | Signature Trust Co.', serial
                            │                     | 0x0a0141420000015385736a0b85eca708, RSA key 2048 bits,
                            │                     | signed using RSA-SHA256, activated `2016-03-17 16:40:46
                            │                     | UTC', expires `2021-03-17 16:40:46 UTC',
                            │                     | pin-sha256="YLh1dUR9y6Kja30RrAn7JKnbQG/uEtLMkBgFF2Fuihg="
                            │10:47:17  pine64 =!= | gnutls: peer's certificate is NOT trusted
                            │10:47:17  pine64 =!= | irc: TLS handshake failed
                            │10:47:17  pine64 =!= | irc: error: Error in the certificate.
                            │10:47:17  pine64  -- | irc: reconnecting to server in 40 seconds