<p>The IRC server has been moved moved to a new host! The DNS changes that will point irc.arstechnica.com to the new server have already been made, and should trickle out to the rest of the Internet ...

How to get on IRC when your favorite server (probbably irc.kulish.com) doesn't seem to be up or have people. This is either due to Ancala messing with his box, or a problem in connecting to the rest ...

The big kerfuffle in the open source world this week surrounds the biggest IRC server operator, Freenode. Wherever the dust settles, myriad important open source projects use Freenode’s IRC servers ...

IRC has no central server; instead, it links together a set of distributed servers in a mesh of sorts. This design was great in that networks could grow by adding more servers, but a breakdown in ...

Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the Internet Relay Chat protocol (IRC) and it is hard to imagine that [Jarkko Oikarinen] could have foreseen the impact his invention would one day have on the ...

Internet Relay Chat, a mainstay of Internet chatting, can provide an easy and free way to communicate with employees and clients. IRC can be accessed through telnet without any additional software on ...

For those looking for a decent IRC client for the Mac, it’s slim pickings. Certainly there are a couple of free solutions available, such as Colloquy, but if you’re interested in a single window IRC ...

Researchers in Symantec's internal special projects group have developed a new application capable of real-time monitoring within the various channels that data thieves, crackers and other online ...