Subj : Re: letsyncrypt issue
To   : Digital Man
From : nelgin
Date : Mon Feb 16 2026 15:52:28

  Re: Re: letsyncrypt issue
  By: Digital Man to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 15 2026 14:57:24

 >  > I noticed that but that is what happend when I plugged irc.synchro.net
 >  > into hexchat in the server name field and told it to connect.  I did
 >  > *not* put *any* info in there for endofthelinebbs.com.

 > irc.synchro.net is a rotating hostname, it points to *all* of the IRC
 > servers (and there's a lot of them). That can be seen using tools like
 > nslookup, host, dig, etc.:

If Dumas wishes to use secure IRC then he's going to need to pick a server rather than relying on the irc.synchro.net alias since, as he discovered, it's not likely to work.

irc.endofthelinebbs.com is a reliable server than can be used for secure connections on port 6697.

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