WTF happend to Rizon?

[itachi_]

Topic! wtf

[Munsu]

no

[itachi_]

Oh sorry, just took a while to connect---

[AkimichiChouji]

Close thread please

[sangai]

actually i too had this problem it tried to connect over 50 times. and so i gave up.

[joker-kun]

Maybe your comp is just gimp i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[itachi_]

No joker it was yesterday.... rizon always screws so.... it works now

[Lego]

instead of

irc.rizon.net

try

irc.cyberwatch.us

its a rizon server, usually fast

[itachi_]

Hmm I always connect to irc.eu.rizon.net becasue i'm from EU get about 20ms instead of 120.

[hiroshi]

The network itself at the time that you asked, hadn't gone down. However a server on the network DID go down, and as a result lots of ppl got kicked off with a netsplit.

Your computer was probably being retarded and trying to connect to the server that had gone down in the first place, simply because the server that went down probably happened to be the closest server to you.

[complich8]

yeah.

rizon is designed to be big and to sustain attacks. As a result, when things happen, it splits. Servers can get ddosed out of existence for a while, and the network just splits them off and keeps going.

most irc clients are kinda dumb though. If you're on the wrong side of a split when a server goes down, just like hiroshi said, you'll probably keep the same resolved name and keep trying to connect to that.

names like irc.rizon.net and eu.rizon.net are supposed to be "load balancing" points ... they redirect you somewhere or another. Your best bet if you're noticing repeated failures is to try /server irc.rizon.net or /server eu.rizon.net or whatever again, and get a different name to resolve.

of course that's a problem when those points die.... but that's another story entirely.