News

2021-12-30	freenode is available again. After freenode's network type was changed to "historical" several months ago, I noticed today, that the crawler can connect freenode again. Therefore freenode's network type was changed back to "competitor" again. Welcome back!
Andreas
2021-12-28	Failed to generate child processes Since December 23 there were problems starting child processes. As a result, DNS errors (Failed to get IP!) were displayed for many IRC networks and many connections failed. Server was restarted to solve the problems.
Andreas
2021-07-31	IRC network freenode was classified as historic freenode, that largest IRC network for many years seems to have a new authorization mechanism. Our crawler is not able to establish a connection any longer and a nickname registration at IRC.com was not successful. – `We couldn't log in :( There was a problem connecting :(` – At the moment I don't see another way to classify freenode as historical. I will check that again in a few days, but it may be that this status remains.
Andreas
2021-06-05	Crawler was modified for Libera.Chat ... LIST command on Libera.Chat does not return all visible IRC channels. Crawler was modified to work around this known issue of Libera.Chat's IRC server software.
Andreas
2020-04	Responsive design was changed a little I finally took some time to improve netsplit.de's responsive web design to improve support of smartphones. Please let me know, if you see some bugs!
Andreas
2018-07-14	Server outage... This server outage was caused by a broken CPU fan.
Andreas
2017-04-27	Connectivity problems Some of my provider's network devices seems to had a problem. Server was not available for more than 24 hours. sigh
Andreas
2017-02-24	Blacklisted on DroneBL.org Someone send my server's IP address to dronebl.org by mistake. Connections to many IRC networks are affected. Unfortunately dronebl.org does not give any helpful information about who made this mistake. I'm going to do my best to get my IP address removed again. sigh
Andreas
2016-07-17	Server outage... Since two days one of netsplit.de's servers is not available. The homepage of the responsible provider is not available too. At the moment it seems that I have to search a new second provider. sigh
Andreas
2015-07-02	DNS outage... DNS servers for domain netsplit.de had got a problem. So measurements and website's availability were temporarily broken.
Andreas
2015-06-13	Switching to responsive web design... Content was modified to improve support of mobile devices (e.g. tablets and mobile phones).
Andreas
2015-02-14	Filtering of Janus links... IRC networks that use Janus to establish links to channels of other IRC networks will be marked as mavericks in future. That means that they don't appear in the top 100 list and their channels can't be found via IRC search. This was a long-needed step to filter channel duplicates and to reduce abuse of reported user numbers.
Andreas
2014-12-07	Migration from osprey to eagle... Website was moved to another/better hardware.
Andreas
2014-06-18	Week of server outages... netsplit.de's IRC statistics are based on two servers. First server serves as data collector for most of the known IRC networks. Second server is mainly used for database and website. Yesterday website was down because of a broken power supply on server two. Power supply was changed and website restarted its work. Today data collection was temporarily interrupted, because load on server hardware (second server runs as virtual machine) was too high. Virtual server was moved to another hardware and now everything should work again... for a while. grin
Andreas
2014-02-17	Server outage... Main collection server was down since Friday. Unfortunately I was on vacation a few days. So I haven't noticed the outage until today. Now everything is running as usual again.
Andreas
2013-10-17	Hardware crash... In consequence of a hardware crash I had to restore netsplit's data. Data of some days is lost, but now measurements should correctly run again.
Andreas