IRC problems

[Vincent]

I've been trying on and off for 2 hours to try and get connected to #amiga.org on IRC, and having no luck at all.

I've tried Trillian and mIRC (yes I'm using a PC - it's not through choice) and both come back with the same reply:

*** Couldn't resolve hostname

This happens on arena.webchat.org and irc.webchat.org.  I even tried NeoFree's website (http://amiga.hostingmountain.com) to get connected and got basically the same result.

It's not that I can't connect to #amiga.org, the problem is getting connected to any IRC client.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

[Vincent]

odin wrote:
Then probably the webchat irc network is down.

Doh! Why didn't I think of that? :oops:  :oops:  :-D

[Vincent]

odin wrote:
Did you think the problem was with you IRC programs? =).

Thought it might be, they've screwed up many times before.  But I was speaking on ICQ and they had the same problem with IRC.  I thought I'd post here to see if anyone had a reason/explanation for the problem.

Anyway goodnite :-D.

Nite mate  :-D

[Vincent]

Cheers guys, IRC is working now so I haven't had to try any of your suggestions, but I've got a note of them for when it happens again. :-D

woohoo, I'm a technoid thanks to the post just above

Cool, I've got 52 posts before I'm a technoid  :-(
I've still got a caffeine buzz :-D