Peak usage of IRC also coincided with peak use of the network to trade pirated software (“warez”), so not all of those people were using IRC to chat in the first place. However, the number of people using them has dropped dramatically ( some say 60 percent) from its peak around 2003-05. Please advise.Today, there are still over 2,000 IRC servers and almost 500 IRC networks (groups of affiliated servers) operating worldwide. This would fix my issues with trying to connect to IRC networks while using the VPN. Is this normal behavior? This is causing some of my issue as I would gladly keep mIRC connect to my ISP while I torrent over the VPN.

Instead is appears that everything is connecting to the VPN. I thought that all previous connections would stay connected to my ISP and anything I connected to after opening the client would connect to the VPN.

I was under the impression that this would not happen. When I open the AirVPN Client my WIFI connection is reset. Is this a known issue and/or is there certain VPN servers I should be using for IRC? Once my torrents are completed I will try other servers to see if I can connect to IRC normally. The error I am getting is that IRC can not find the hostname. I then reconnected to a server in Spain (I'm using a 3 day trial of AirVPN and am trying to test out different servers), and I am unable to connect to IRC. When I first connected to a VPN server in Colorado (USA) I was able to get on IRC networks. I am, however, experiencing another issue.

This is not a huge issue for me at this time, and if there is no way to forward that port then I shall continue to connect to these alternative servers. Thankfully, I am still able to get on my favorite networks using alternative servers.

Yes, their are servers that will not let you connect without IdentD.

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