Dear GNOME Community, after testing the new IRCD and its integration with services (ChanServ, NickServ) [1] we are delighted to announce we will be moving the testing servers to production this upcoming thursday from 22 to 23 CET+1. The downtime should not take more than a few minutes: old ircds will be shutdown and the new ones will be restarted for properly binding to the default ports. (being 6667 for non-ssl connections and 6697 for ssl-enabled connections) The new network will come with new features: - SSL (reachable by connecting to port 6697 on each of the servers hosted within the network) - IRC services (ChanServ, NickServ), that will allow you to register your nickname and channel in a safe and straightforward way. Instructions on how to interact with services are available at [1], [2] will receive a revamp in the next couple of days including all the details and support contacts - Improved IPv6 support now available on both irc.acc.umu.se and irc.poop.nl As a side note the GNOME Bot known as 'Services' will be removed from channels that previously requested it unless a specific team requires its MeetBot capability. I'll give [3] a look and see which teams made use of it in the past years and leave it connected on those channels. If you want the bot to join a new channel as you would be willing to manage a meeting through it opening a bug at [4] should be the ideal way for having it added to the requested channel. The Operators Team will be available on the #opers channel during and after the migration, questions and support requests should be redirected to that channel. This is the list of servers that will populate the network: - irc.acc.umu.se: IPv4: 130.239.18.215, IPv6: 2001:6b0:e:2018::215 - irc.eagle.y.se, IPv4: 82.99.16.155 - irc.gimp.ca, IPv4: 142.4.222.129 - irc.poop.nl, IPv4: 83.98.201.42 - IPv6: 2001:16f8:4::42 The irc.gimp.org (the record irc.gnome.org points to) round robin will be updated with the new IPs on the same day, it might take a few hours for all the DNS resolvers to get in sync, in case make use of the IPs of the machines to connect as listed above. As usual keep an eye at [5]. [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2015-April/msg00010.html [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Sysadmin/IRC [3] https://meetbot.gnome.org/ [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=sysadmin&component=IRC [5] https://status.gnome.org -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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